NEXT-GEN Nescot week 2 - Storyboard Artists(1) "Edward Gorey"

Edward Gorey's website - http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/

During week 1 (of year 2) we were tasked with finding 3 illustrators or artists that we like and I chose
Edward Gorey who was an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books.
He characteristicly made pen-and-ink drawings that often depicted vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings.

Edward Gorey mostly used the style of surrealism in a much darker, back and white setting with disturbing imagery. For example, Edward Gorey created the book 'The Gashlycrumb Tinies' which details each of the alphabetical letters as a separate child's death as seen above.

Edward Gorey most commonly used line-work and pen, this gave his illustrations a much more eye catching appearance and allowed the more detailed or dense areas of the image to receive a larger amount of shade or to maintain more detail. This can be seen in the book:

"The GashlyCrumb Tinies"

Buy the book at - https://goreystore.com/collections/edward-gorey-books/products/edward-gorey-the-gashlycrumb-tinies-book

There are examples of his work when he often used more colour but with a minimalistic colour scheme.  He made multiple books like this and had significantly different themes than his other work. An example of this would be:

"He Was There From The Day We Moved In"

Buy the book at - https://goreystore.com/collections/edward-gorey-books/products/rhoda-levine-he-was-there-from-the-day-we-moved-in-book