Holly

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I saw the movie Igor a few days ago with a friend. Igor is an adorable animated comedy-ish story that took a twist on Frankenstein and all monster related genres. One of the characters in the movie, the "Frankenstein" called Eva, inspired me to create a new character. I also wanted to do a mix of Frankenstein and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Thus, Holly was born. I am still working on her character, but I developed a background for her with much help from my friend Alisha. Holly was created by a scientist/doctor who worked at an asylum between the late 18th century and early 19th century. There was a mental illness that was affecting young children and adolescents. Many of the victims were put in the care of the doctors at this certain asylum. This doctor had a small laboratory in his office where he used deceased victims as his studies in hopes that he would find a cure. While he was thumbing through one of his books, he came across the alchemical practice of creating life. In a sudden burst of inspiration, he began using various pieces from his victims to create life. He hoped that if he succeeded, his creation would have the same illness as the people they were made of. The doctor succeeded, but he found that his creation's mentality was normal, except for the fact she did not possess a soul and was therefore void of any emotion or individual thought. She could be killed in any normal method a human could die from (shot through the head, stabbed in the chest, drowned, poisoned, etc.) but otherwise, her body would not age. In a sense, she was immortal. When the head of the asylum discovered what the doctor had done, he was fired on the spot. However, since life had never been created before, they did not want to destroy the experiment seeing how she posed as no threat. Holly became the "ghost" that wandered through the halls at night, singing lullabies to calm the inhabitants. She continued to live in the asylum even though the employees who had been alive when she was created had passed on. She remained in the building for almost one hundred years. This is where Alisha's character comes in play, but that is the roleplay we plan to start soon. We still do not have all the kinks worked out yet.
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I doodled my initial sketch in pen while attending a service at church. I had planned on coloring it in Photoshop, but I did not have enough time. I needed to finish my Spirited Away picture, so I decided to leave it as a line art and color another picture of Holly I planned on drawing later. Her hair was somewhat of an experiment. I did not want to draw the individual strands like I normally do, and I also wanted to convey the feeling of a mass of tangles. It was fairly successful. Her eyes are also suppose to be black where the white normally is, but I did not think to color them in since I was assuming I was going to color it in Photoshop. That is a misleading detail. I was also going to add hair to the doll but I did not get the chance either. I am very proud of the hands. The little details I left out because I thought I was going to use Photoshop irk me, but this was a practice so I should not be too hard on myself. *laughs*
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Drawn August 21, '08.
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Pencil.
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Picture and character (C) Alice Falling