About the Author - Visual Journal

I had made a few pages of scratchy textures which I thought matched the overall tone of Poe's work so I decided to work over them. The first I'm not too keen on, it was one of those things where I had the idea in my head but I couldn't translate it to the page right. Though I do really like the hair, I've been enjoying drawing hair with a lot of lines recently - I think it looks really cool. I prefer the second drawing though it's also not what I envisioned, but it looks nice. The colours were chosen because I was trying to break away from doing everything black and red.

Some more stuff based on 'The Raven" trying out different colours. Although I do like the purple's and blues if I were to use these colours I would have to narrow it down as the end product has to be two colours and these are much more than two. Keeping this in mind although it's predictable, using red and black would fit into the brief and be appropriate colours. I will keep experimenting, I don't want to limit myself just yet.

Thinking about how I can mix up motif's - skull representing death but the bottom jaw is the Pendulum (The Pit & The Pendulum). - Expanding on this could work well, as it links directly to a story as well as recurring themes throughout. 

Although in "Never Bet the Devil your Head" there is no demonic representation of the Devil, I thought I'd throw this out there - This image sort of bridges into comedy though and that's not really where I want to take this. I have a 'cartoony' way of working, which I'd like to break out of because it's my comfort zone and stuff but also I'm worried this style will resign me to humour? Though I've seen other artists such as Emily Carroll have a 'cartoon-like' style and pull off horror very well (Through the Woods is terrifying, I would never read it before bed) 

Poe's head on the Raven, I am self sabotaging by saying I want to break away from humour and then drawing this. 

Long story short: I really want to explore everything I can with this brief, it's long and there's plenty of time for me to do LOTS. Right now I don't need to have an existential crisis about my work.