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Die Tatsachen im Falle Waldemar
This is a quick sketch (2011) inspired in Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Facts in the case of M. Waldemar” (1845), which I downloaded as an audio file spoken in German at vorleser.net (there’s a French version at Litteratureaudio.com, which is excellent!). It’s definitely one of my favorites written by Poe.
I first sketched this illustration with pencil, then colored the hat and jacket with watercolor and added digital colors in Photoshop.
Here’s another illustration for this tale, by Harry Clarke (1919), taken from a Wikipedia article: