Dilapidated
In this post you can see an ink illustration 'Dorian's Keys' that I created for Chapter Forty Three of 's amazing novel Dwelling, a crime novel set in New York’s Lower East Side.
Arriving home, Dorian placed his keys on the kitchen table and looked up to find his apartment suddenly seemed a dilapidated shanty.
Chapter Forty Three of Doug Karr's novel Dwelling
Ink illustration
Creating the drawing using black drawing inks and a set of keys. It's time to get messy!
The fixtures and furniture all looked worn and encrusted with dust. He'd always considered himself at odds with his lifer neighbors, the creepy old shut-ins who still occupied hundreds of these Lower East Side tenements like a checkerboard of atrophied castoffs. But the more he thought about it, the more he'd progressed toward one of these urban hermits.
Chapter Forty Three of Doug Karr's novel Dwelling
'Dorian's Keys'
If you want to see some of my previous ink illustrations check out DWELLING, an illustrated crime novel collaboration between myself and fellow Steemian , set in New York’s Lower East Side. Dwelling is now available in print and ePub.

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