They say practice makes perfect, so here are today’s portrait sketches! I’m really into sketching people at the moment, so wanted to practice using light and shadow to create a sense of drama in the expression. For reference, I used stock photos from Deviant Art user Stockicide, who kindly posts a whole range of different… Continue reading Portrait sketch practice
Enjoy these gorgeous illustrations from the 1920s edition of Children’s and Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm! I love beautifully illustrated books, especially from the Golden Age of Children’s Book Illustration. So this edition from 1922 published by Braun & Schneider and illustrated by Hermann Vogel is right up my street. I found this edition… Continue reading Vintage Children’s Book Illustration Never Gets Old to Me
Here’s piece no. 2 in my Flash Fic with Pics series! (You can see #1 here) This one’s more poetry than prose, but it still tells a short story about inner beasts in nursery rhyme style Here goes ☺…
This awesome art-book is a unique focal point in this well-considered, perceptive horror, where the monster of a mysterious storybook torments a grieving family to the brink of sanity…
These cheerfully illustrated, vintage German nursery rhymes come packed with morbid morals and deadly consequences…
Do you love flash fiction AND old poster art? Me too, let’s read on!
Where did the weird illustrations of hellish creatures found in the French ‘Dictionnaire Infernal’ (1836) come from?
