I’ve been struggling with my project recently (I think I locked myself too far into The Resurrectionist) and with the idea that my drawings are too pretty to be grotesque. I know that sounds rather self-aggrandizing, but it’s a bit of a problem if your working title is Case Studies of The Grotesque.

I went ahead and drew as I usually do, incorporating all the odd images from the grimoires/pseudo-encyclopedias that I’ve been researching recently. I decided that perhaps my original ideas and themes still hold – it’s just that I need to find a new vessel for them that can grow along with my illustrations.

 

This came from all the ero guro I’ve been looking at as well as all the strange plant hybrids in the Voynich manuscript and the Codex Seraphinianus.

 

This came from some of the horror game artbooks that I’ve dug out for inspiration on grotesque/body horror/insanity.

It’s hard to say how my project is developing now, but I’m going to have myself a research session in the HSS/ADM library tomorrow (there are some books I need to look for) to beef up on theory.