The Mummy: Boris Karloff

The Mummy(1932) 

Boris Karloff born (William Henry Pratt) November 23, 1887

"... working at UNIVERSAL PICTURES in the Spring of 1931(Frankenstein)  was a forty-two-year-old bit player named Boris Karloff. The thin, swarthy Englishman had endured twelve years in movies, waiting for a role that would lift him  from the ranks of the occasionally employed. In 1926, one of his worst years, Karloff had almost given up..." 

excerpt from HOLLYWOOD HORROR From Gothic to Cosmic by Mark A. Vieira

Ballpoint Practice:Frankenstein

Doing a bit of practice for a future project. I have to get the technique down before I move the the final pieces. There was a mistake doing this since the space around Karloff's face I did larger strokes, the desired technique would be the same as I used in the studies below, smaller finer strokes but it was 2am and I was sleepy when i did this piece. 

 

Tonal value practice and shadow studies.                                       

This is the final piece but pictured with the tool used. One dead soldier: Titus fine ballpoint pen(blue). 

Karloff: The Gentle Monster

Frankenstien

In support of a daft-western tradition I Present Frankenstein.