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Commissioned for dark fiction magazine ‘Visionary Tongue’ #27,
‘Paranuit’ suffered from two issues, both my fault. Firstly it was
drawn out on an A4 sheet which I presumed would be of sufficient
size, though clearly A3 would have held the intended level of
detail more gracefully; secondly it seemed to take forever. I had
to work it around a full time job and the close cross-hatching
that I wanted for the picture, when strung out over small
snatches of time, felt like chipping away at marble. As a result
large swathes of background are block coloured, not as I’d
originally intended but with a pleasing enough result.
I’d intended to produce an image that was, for want of a better
word, ultra-gothic and fashioned this into a kind of dystopian
vision where innocent ladies can be preyed upon amongst the
fog and crumbling architecture, while sinister figures look on,
perhaps as a last source of hope, and perhaps not...
The ‘Paranuit’ is a bastardised term for parasol of course; where
one holds off the sun the other presumably shades from the night.
Dangling from the example above can be found various bird skulls,
an iron arrow, a rabbit’s foot and a shrunken head.
Purely for luck, I’m sure.