Outside Magazine
For the March/April 2024 issue of Outside, writer Tim Neville spent 82 hours alone in complete darkness at a remote dark retreat. No light, no phone, no music, just a bed, a bathroom and whatever his mind decided to do next. It is an odd brief for an illustrator: how do you draw the absence of light?
I decided not to fight the dark. I let it fill the page with deep blues and swirling, almost liquid shapes, and kept one small glow at the center, where the figure lies curled up under the blanket. Everything else bends around that point, the way thoughts seem to when there is nothing left to look at.
These are the illustrations for the feature.
