This was my first commissioned work. The client requested that I draw for him the Clive Barker character "Erin Boone", but wanted my personal interpretation of the character from the novella Cabal; as opposed to the film Nightbreed. I couldn’t resist using some visual cues from the film; there is a disturbing and moving flashback sequence where the Nightbreed are shown being persecuted by religious zealots. I felt it was crucial to evoke some of that tribal history beneath Boone’s snarling face.

Charcoal on paper, 2010