OUR ILLUSTRATIONS

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Our hallmark chiaroscuro illustrations are pencil sketches done on 6 x 9 paper. The pictures are drawn in negative, and after being scanned, the color is digitally inverted, leaving a composition largely composed of deep shadows (the white paper) interspersed with glowing swathes of light (pencil smudges), and gleaming highlights (pencil marks).

 

My primary, direct artistic influences are illustrators Edward Gorey, Gustave Dore, Barry Moser, Lynd Ward, Arthur Rackham, Harry Clarke, Bernie Wrightson, and W. Graham Robertson. Painters Godfried Schalcken, Heinrich Fuseli, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Carrivagio, and John Atkinson Grimshaw are also influences to the mood, tone, and style of our illustrations.

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Here's a side-by-side "before and after" of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's haunting masterpiece, "Schalken the Painter". On the left is the pencil drawing I made; on the right it has been inverted and touched up with Pixlr editor.

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GALLERIES

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Below you will find curated galleries of the illustrations

in each of our publications.  

 

 

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