Want to freak your audience out? How about a one point perspective illustration of something heading straight for them at speed?
Ebony Jr January 1974. Illustration by Orville A. Hurt The expression on this woman’s face suggests she is posing stationary. (Women are required to look pretty.)Harper’s Weekly, February 2, 1912. Art by Valentine Sandberg. This composition achieves symmetry, so isn’t quite so alarming.Woman’s World Magazine January 1917 cover artTHE BIG RED PAJAMA WAGON Whitman Tale-A-Tale BookPoster by Leonetto Cappiello c1910もしも月でくらしたら 山本省三 2017Adrienne Adams in ‘Childcraft The How and Why Library’ Volume 5, Field Enterprman and dog in car‘Rockets To Nowhere’ cover illustration by Alex Schomburg, 1954Umberto Tirelli Modena Express 1908. Is it the composition or the faces? Be right back, I need to have a nightmare.Mercy the Pig is full of energy, beautifully captured on this cover. John Patience – The Little Mermaid. This angle can’t have been easy to pull off. She comes very close to looking as if she’s got three chins.A Castle In Canada by Caroline FarrPoster by Boccasile, circa 1950 train track walk to school. People walking along train tracks is always a little alarming, especially if you’ve seen the movie Stand By Me.Paris, Texas1909 Frank Pape, for Anatole France’s Penguin Island
The following images aren’t quite so alarming. Although vehicles and creatures come towards the viewer, they approach obliquely.
Baba Yaga stories in Jack and Jill Magazine illustrated by Ursula KoeringRavel – Swiss Auto Advertisement – art by Lucien Pillot – c 1925Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré from Orlando Furioso, Frenzy of Roland
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:
