Rhapsodies

The downside of this challenge is that it’s the third day and already tired of drawing the cliche’s! (Next year I’ll plan ahead more and make a point of not putting them on the list) So as you can guess today I reached into the hat and drew one of the top five monsters that everyone thinks of come Halloween time… Frankenstein’s Monster.

The point of this exercise is to keep things under thirty minutes while forcing you to think on your toes (“I don’t care what your muse said, this is your assignment”) the random draw takes away the ability to plan ahead (I started the day with what to do with the chupacabra) so I was not ready to do anything beyond something based on Boris Karloff in Jack Pierce’s  makeup!

I quickly rejected something with the monster on the slab, it took me a little longer to decide something a little longer to decide something jokey involving the monster volunteering for the school of the blind was not a good idea.

Finally I decided to go with my favorite scene in the novel where the Monster confronts Frankenstein in the mountains. For me this is what tore me away from all of the movie cliches I grew up with where the monster turned from a shambling creature and became a flawed and broken god.