The kid blood meridian

A few portraits I drew for fun of characters from the novel Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. I wanted to keep with the old-timey western theme and see how I would go trying to mimic a pen and ink style digitally. I was later commissioned to create a full body illustration of the Kid character; depicted as he is in a later chapter in the book and a few years older.

The Kid

The Kid from Blood Meridian

I previously did a quick paint of the kid and I thought now that I've upgraded to adobe suite cs5 I'd play around with the new brush engine....

Blood Meridian project 1 The Kid Inspired by the book Blood Meridian by American author Cormac McCarthy. Acrylics on canvas 16x20 inches, varnished

This May, PEL's Not School Fiction Group read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, the author of No Country for Old Men (which PEL covered) and The Road. Blood Meridian is a dark masterpiece set in 1849 where a runaway kid joins a gang of scalp-hunters led by the Judge, a philosophizing warmonger. The Judge's views on existence come