Blood Meridian - Comanche attack

'A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals...all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell...'
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Having had my mind utterly blown reading Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian' (rightfully described as 'the ultimate western'), I felt compelled to create images of the characters as I visualised them. If you haven't read the book I can't recommend it enough....a hypnotic, violent, poetic and hallucinatory work of art.
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Created using Procreate and Midjourney - animated with Midjourney