Drawing for Dwelling -Surveillance

He is watching

I'm sharing with you 'Surveillance', a drawing I created for Chapter Twenty Five of Doug Karr's amazing novel Dwelling.

Ivan pushed the door open another inch.

"Got a new lock, huh? That bastard downstairs really fucked the last one up good, didn't he?"

Dorian turned around to face his neighbor. "You saw him?"

"I see everything."

Dorian was unsettled by the fanciful statement.

Chapter Twenty Five of Dwelling by Doug Karr.

Creating an illustration for Dwelling

To start the drawing black ink was applied to the paper to create a series of marks, once the ink was dry the image of the surveillance camera was sketched in with pencil. Next, candle wax was applied to the center of the camera glass, preparing the image for a wax resist technique. Then using a paint brush light tones were built up over the drawing with ink and water.

Darker tones were built up with ink and water to suggest areas of shadow.

Darker tones

More dark tones were added with black drawing ink to the camera lens, the ink resisted the areas were wax had been applied to the paper. Finally, ink and water was applied around the edge of the paper to suggest the shadows and dreary walls of the tenements dark hallway.

Ivan motioned to the closed circuit camera above his door.

"Oh, right."

"You wanna see something?" Ivan asked.

Dorian hesitated. See something, as in go inside Ivan's apartment and see something?

Chapter Twenty Five of Dwelling by Doug Karr.

Ivan sat down at his computer, flipping on the ancient PC. On the screen was a staticky black and white overhead video image of the hallway. Dorian momentarily considered working Ivan into his new project somehow, the old hoarder and his screwy habitation was nothing if not interesting, and certainly a fixture of the expiring neighborhood, but Dorian quickly pushed the notion away.

Chapter Twenty Five of Dwelling by Doug Karr.

Surveillance

Ink on paper

"It's a closed circuit," he continued. "Motion sensitive. Been recording this hallway half a decade..."

Chapter Twenty Five of Dwelling by Doug Karr.

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