The Creature
— Illustrations by Bernie Wrightson (American, 1948-2017)
for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
extreme size difference couples with one partner being too big to fit in a normal double bed and even then sinking into it and their partner slides next to them
ahahahaha
haha. I find that stuff super cute
is this a “draw the squad” thing? heck I’d like to see stuff like this. size difference is Great
Solution is the little one sleeps on top of the big one!






“How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips.”
Makeup test for Frankenstein’s creature! I adore him, so I had an absolute BALL with this. And yes, there’s a fair bit of Erik in there. I can’t help myself. ;)
Headcanons about Adam:
- his hair texture varies because Victor didn't manage to obtain enough hair from one person.
- his mouth looked okay closed when Adam was still lying there motionless in the dorm room, but when he opens it, Victor gets huge whiplash. You know, like when you finish a drawing and immediately see everything wrong with it :'D
Speaking of which-
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I've talked a bit about this before: I LOVE how in Frankenstein, Shelley had the perfect excuse to make an allusion to the Bible and genisis, and instead she chose Paradise Lost. Creature connects to a story about what a creation did rather than how someone made them, because the life matters more to him than the birth; in telling his own story, he brushes past his "origin" in less than a page.
By that choice, Shelley emphasizes the theme that what mankind creates matters less than how we respond to it.









