Before Paul Died

During the summer break of 2011 I was given a list of seven books to read and asked to choose one to investigate visually. I chose 'the Wasp Factory' by Iain Banks and during that period I drew a series of sketches and filled a pad up. On return to University and the start of my second year, my tutors set a new brief of drafting and presenting two illustrated double page spreads using the summer work done so far as a basis for the final outcome. I decided, in the end to illustrate the pivotal scenes in which the main protagonist kills of three of his close relatives at a very young age in inventive and darkly humorous ways. Which could be seen as being a bit of a sellout, but I went for it anyway. I coloured all three in, but only prefer the main image this way, the other two I prefer in black and white. I did three, as it didn't seem right to do only two of the death scenes, when they seem so important to the story.