Something that became clear to me as I was drawing the different creatures – I might go to a Frankenstein to bring my dog back to life but I wouldn’t trust one to treat a paper cut. Good lord, Frankensteins are lousy surgeons. It’s not like they had to work fast to save a patient’s life. They were working with corpses. They had plenty of time to sew the parts together neatly and cleanly. They just obviously couldn’t be bothered.

One change between the inked version and the pencil one is the addition of the monster from Frankenstein Conquers the World in the upper right corner. If I were to do this illustration again there are about a dozen other creatures I would have included in the picture that only occured to me after it was done.

I draw for practice. I draw for fun. I draw because an image pops up in my imagine and hangs out there until I put some version of it on paper. For the last year or so I’ve had this “Legion of Frankensteins” phrase lurking in my head. There’s not much more to it than the words imply. Technically it would be “Legion of Frankensteinian Creatures” but we’ll ignore that for the sake of brevity.

I decided to use this image for both fun and practice. I didn’t worry about making the creatures direct portraits of any specific creations (though most of them are inspired by specific films or stories) and I decided to use the drawing as a coloring practice. Over the next few days I’ll be posting the different stages of turning this into a finished color illustration.