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MONSTER MEN
The digital scribble was a memory doodle of a
Frank Frazetta frontis piece ink sketch printed
in an Ace paperback of Edgar Rice Burroughs’
Monster Men. I followed the general layout
of my doodle, but changed the feeling of
the scene by adjusting the pose, and subsequently
the figure’s rhythm and attitude. I
decided I wanted to shift the emotion from
an impression of direct angry menace to one
of less certainty—more tentative. This makes
the monster more pathetic, possibly even a
bit sympathetic. Subtle changes can create
significant shifts in effect.
38 DRAW! SUMMER 2012