Macabre pen-and-ink storybook drawing with needle-thin scratch marks, dense parallel hatching, carved black silhouettes and visibly rough printed-paper grain. Faces are pale and gaunt on natural proportions: hollow shadowed eye sockets, small sharp pupils, high hatched cheekbones, a long fine nose and thin dark lips; facial hair, where present, is fine scratched stubble. Hair is drawn in long scratched strands, and animals get wide pale eyes and wiry hatched fur. Black ink on aged cream paper carries the image, with one controlled accent ink chosen to fit the scene; choose the setting to fit the scene and keep it in theatrical shadow. Subjects may be re-posed. No text or lettering. A witch in her fifties with long wavy grey hair, a tall black pointed hat and a patched apron over a dark dress stirs a big black iron cauldron of glowing green steam with a long wooden spoon, glancing back over her shoulder with a wry smile, while a black cat sits on the wooden counter beside her. Bundles of dried herbs, copper pans, candles, pumpkins and a skull fill the crooked kitchen, and a harvest moon fills the small window with crows on the rafters. Palette of ink black with pumpkin orange and a hint of toxic green. Tall 9:16 frame. No text, letters or numbers anywhere.
