A trio of editorial illustrations based on an article about the mysterious death of a Sherlock Holmes fanatic by David Grann (The New Yorker)

Illustration in Procreate

I sprinkled every part of the story with details. Above is a murder scene peppered with details mentioned in the article, incomplete factors pieced through the article.

Above is the murder scene taking center stage, peppered with incomplete evidence readers piece together throughout the article.

Here we see the three central characters to this mystery, silhouetted in magnifying glass cracks.

This piece references the chest of manuscripts that many characters in the article are competing for.

(Note the 221 Easter egg!)

I sprinkled every part of the story with details. Above is a murder scene peppered with details mentioned in the article, incomplete factors pieced through the article.