Yuko Shimizu

The last segment of DC Comics Vertigo series The Unwritten, published as The Unwritten Apocalypse. This is #8 cover illustration.
October 2014 issue
This image was inspired by Albrecht  Dürer and the other pints from German Renaissance artists.

(Originally a full color version was created, but after some discussion with editorial team, we decided to run the simpler b/w version as the final cover. Sometimes, we artists go through ‘necessary waste of time’ to figure out what works best.)

editor: Gregory Lockard
The Unwritten series is created by writer Mike Carey and cartoonist Peter Gross

original drawing is: SOLD