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I discovered a battered collection of Ward’s books on my father’s bookshelf. This illustration— one of my favorites— was from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. At age five, I was already expert at drawing scary monsters. I’d figured out that the two most important ingredients for a monster were 1.) a scary face, and 2.) great big muscles. Yet, Ward’s monster had neither. Ward succeeded in unnerving me without showing a face at all. (via ILLUSTRATION ART: 0NE LOVELY DRAWING, part 38)
