Scary Tales - part 3
"The Upper Berth", Francis Marion Crawford, 1886
"The Judge’s House", Bram Stoker, 1891
"The Shaggy House", Joe Richard Lansdale, 1986
In this part I will tell you about three more stories and show the process of creating illustrations. Restrictions that were imposed on the execution: only black and white images, only hand drawing, no figures of people or any other creatures can be used.
preliminary sketches before starting work
"The Upper Berth", Francis Marion Crawford, 1886
The story of how there was a cabin on a transatlantic liner in which a dead man, a drowned man, lived. All the people who settled in this cabin ended equally badly - they drowned in the sea. The hero of the story gets to this cabin and tries to survive.
"The Judge’s House", Bram Stoker, 1891
A story about the fact that everything has to be paid for. A man with his wife and daughter moves to a small town, where everything begins for them to make up and in general they were very lucky. Just before Halloween, a man will find out which one he is have to pay for all this luck and who exactly (spoiler - to a terrible otherworldly creature).
"The Shaggy House", Joe Richard Lansdale, 1986
The story of how a house arose on an ordinary street. Out of nowhere, as if yesterday he was not there, but today he appeared. The main character noticed in time that all the houses on the street seemed to have aged in one moment, somehow suddenly fell into disrepair. He tracked down an uninvited houseguest when he attacked neighboring houses at night, and killed him by burning him to the ground.
