The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter

I recently read Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces by Angela Carter. It's a collections of some of Carter's short stories.

The story that resonated the most with me was The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter. It opens with the town executioner about to kill his own son. Oddly, the town executioner never takes off his mask. And there are chicken embryos mentioned. I think it's an original little bit of dark fiction, yet the true story behind it is nothing new at all.

I drew the daughter. Because of the color scheme I chose she looks albino, but she wasn't intended to be. I wanted to have the limited red/black/white palette.

My drawing is actually only one girl with an egg shape full of blobby chicken babies in it. While tweaking the scan in Photoshop, I experimented with making it a diptych.

Close up. I used a black Copic marker to outline her. I apparently didin't wait long enough for it to dry since it bled a little bit.

Patternized!