Illustration Friday: Poise

While I was going to college I worked part-time in a deli. It was a challenge to keep one's head poised a certain way as you tried to mask your contempt for your job and the terrible attitudes of the customers you had to serve.

Illustration Friday: Subtract

Here I sit subtracting from one side and adding to another...bottom line is time is being subtracted from my life and there is nothing I can add to stop it.

Illustration Friday: Legendary

"Legend has it the Bartleby kid rode his bike down this hill on a dare. He lost control of his bike, crashed into the creek and broke his neck. The neighborhood kids knew he was hurt and went for help but it turned out he broke his neck and drowned in six inches of water. That's why we call this Neck Breaker Hill. Some people say the creek is haunted and that the Bartleby boy won't let anyone go down the hill unscathed. I dare you to ride down it."

Illustration Friday: Intricate

A man in a dark overcoat, with his muffler pulled up round his face, and his hat pulled down over his eyes, came along Culver Street and went up the steps of number 74. He put his finger on the bell and heard it shrilling in the basement below.
Wheezing a little, Mrs. Casey toiled up the basement stairs and opened the door.
The man asked in a whisper, "Mrs. Lyon?"
"Second floor, said Mrs. Casey. "Go on up and knock."
When the man got round the bend of the staircase he began to whistle softly. The tune he whistled was "Three Blind Mice"...
~ Agatha Christie Three Blind Mice

Three blind mice
Three blind mice
See how they run
See how they run
They all ran after the farmer's wife
She cut off their tails with a carving knife
Did you ever see such a sight in your life
As three blind mice

I thought an illustration done in a manner similar to illustrator Harry Clarke would be appropriate for this week's topic. I've been watching a lot of Agatha Christie's Poirot and reading her short stories and decided to do a quick illustration for the topic this week.