Drawing for Dwelling -Stairway

Morris's scribbles

I'm sharing with you the process of how I created 'Stairway', an illustration for Chapter Twenty Two of Doug Karr's amazing novel Dwelling. This is the second of three drawings I have created for this chapter.

In their apartment, sitting with a pencil in his hand, scribbling another incoherent miniature stairway on the peeling paint across from his toilet, he wondered how long he’d had the hard wooden seat beneath him.

Chapter Twenty Two of Dwelling by Doug Karr.

The process of creating the drawing

I started with a piece of paper that I had already prepared by dipping the base of the paper into ink to create a distressed look.

Using a dip pen and drawing ink I began to draw Morris's 'incoherent miniature stairway' on the paper.

Morris was unaware he’d walked home. He was past the point of pins and needles, so it had to have been longer than an hour. No more sound on the stairwell. Sometimes he'd get a lucky look at a big titter in a tight skirt through the peephole this time of night, but it was past that now, and the concentric stairwells in his drawing were starting to give him a headache.

Chapter Twenty Two of Dwelling by Doug Karr.

I added ink washes across the paper to suggest the different tones and marks. Darker lines were added with the dip pen and brushes.

So many souls in these splintered walls. He tried to mash the end of the pencil into a tiny knot in the wood, seeing if it would regain it's point, but only managing flaked graphite, descending to the floor in a rain of black dust.

Chapter Twenty Two of Dwelling by Doug Karr.

'Stairway'

Ink on paper

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