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Stunning & Dark Drawings of Animals’ Skeletons Emerging From Their Skin by Paul Jackson

Toronto-based artist Paul Jackson illustrates detailed pen and pencil sketches with a macabre sensibility, which literally disintegrate the internal anatomy of animals. With careful attention and sophistication, Jackson makes sure the integrity of his work doesn’t suffer by assuring they do not resemble roadkill.

Dark and beautiful, the artist disassembles the whole body with love, taking care to leave the organs, capillaries and skin as intact as possible while the bones are lifted off cleanly. Clearly, he desires to showcase the body or head of the subject as a whole and living entity, besides the structure that holds it upright.

His ink leaves a fierce expression on both the skeletons and the face of the subjects, as intense as if they were to about to pounce on their prey. To simulate this animalistic ritual, Jackson draws each creature in mid-motion, making them seem even more alive than two-dimensional. 

someone, sarcastically: hah go cry about it 

me: i’m literally going to

M. C. Escher Metamorphosis II, 1940

 Beautiful photography by NonaLimmen on Etsy.