Doodle of the Day for January 27, 2009

Over 200 years ago (actu­ally he was born on Jan­u­ary 19th, 1809) the great Edgar Allen Poe was born and Lit­er­a­ture has nev­er­more been the same. My doo­dle today was goof­ing around in illus­tra­tor & pho­to­shop while lis­ten­ing to an audio book of his stories.

I remem­ber being riv­eted to the fan­tas­tic story, Masque of the Red Death when my class read it in 8th grade. To this day, I still find it a great read, a great exam­i­na­tion of futil­ity of life in the face of death. The writ­ing is so vibrant, you can feel being in the Prince Prospero’s doomed hall. If you haven’t read it, check it out here.

The bird and tree tex­ture behind Mr. Poe is from the great tex­ture site LostandTaken.com run by Caleb Kim­brough. Check his site for great tex­tures and inspiration.

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