Ichabod Crane, from Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

The Duchess, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The Three Witches, from Shakespeare's Macbeth. The lighting and composition were inspired by a drawing of this same subject by John Runciman, but for the style I looked to Gustave Dore, Jean Louis Desprez and particularly John Hamilton Mortimer.

Januarie and May, from The Canterbury Tales. In the Merchant's Tale, Januarie, a wealthy old man, marries May, a lady younger than 20. She proceeds to have an affair with a young squire in Januarie's household.

A little witch. Drawn for a friend who needed a quick illustration for a writing workshop.

My drawing of Pontus, primordial god of the sea in Greek mythology. According to Hesiod, Pontus was the son of Gaia (the earth), and fathered various crotchety sea dieties, among them Phorcys and Ceto (the parents of Medusa). Not to be confused with Oceanus - the Titan god who embodied the ocean encircling the known world - or Poseidon - the Olympian god who ruled over the sea. For the most part he was not treated as a sentient, intelligent being but as the sea itself. Like a number of gods in Hesiod's Theogony, he exists primarily to account for an essential element of the ancient Greek world and to fill in a gap in the divine family tree.

Mosaics depicting Pontus represent him as a giant head with a beard of waves and sea foam. It was difficult to depict crashing waves purely in black and white line drawing, and a second attempt is probably necessary to get this right.

More fantastical creatures.

Various fantastical creatures, no particular project.

The final cover design for Stone Apples, showing Gagazel and his fellow fiends. I was trying to go for a Hieronymus Bosch look here (particularly the Ghent altarpiece).

An unused illustration from Stone Apples.

Three illustrations of the wizard king, the main villain of Stone Apples.

Some other vignettes from Stone Apples.

Four more chapter headpieces from Stone Apples. Pen and Ink. Click on the arrows to scroll.

Some of my chapter headpieces from Harris Tobias' Stone Apples. Click on the arrows to view the images.

Baffles, the princess' cat in Stone Apples by Harris Tobias.

The demon Gagazel, as he appears in Stone Apples, by Harris Tobias. Originally, this was the cover design, but both the author and I thought is was a little too intense for a children's book. In the print version of the book the illustration appears as a double-page spread, and in the Kindle edition, as a single page vignette.

The style of the drawing was inspired by the Chimera etching of Louis Jean Desprez.

The Summoner, from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Pen and ink.