One of the great things which can be so well illustrated in pen and ink is the idea of drama, of 'pushing the values', and few did so well at this as Joseph Clement Coll... so, continuing with a retrospective of the year ago, here are more examples of his craft and the manner in which he, as had Vierge before him, extended pen and ink....
These are from a series of illustrations done for Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World", of the adventures of Professor Challenger...
Note how the use of the black achieves so much in placing drama, from the intensity of the foregrounds, even the particular characters within...
Note the sense of the visual, the angles in which is measured the drama - and remember he did all this essentially from his head, after mentally 'seeing' it so vividly, then transcribing it all to paper...
To climax with the masterful rendering of the full plate, with all the necessitated details - and then think, if he had been able to carry on doing these as ends of themselves, how much more detail and drama he would have gotten out...
[and yes, remember to click on the pics to get the full sense of the handiworks]
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