VARNEY THE VAMPYRE :- LOCATION DRAWING/IMAGINATION/RESEARCH FUSION

I and excellent Belgian illustrator/educator Ephameron ventured to Hampstead Heath with Camberwell Comic Club to explore the story of "Varney the Vampyre" in the place where it was first envisioned by Varney author J.M.Rymer. Here are my efforts, these are all drawing on location, trying to fuse observed drawing, research and imagination in order to explore the story in fresh ways. We start off where Varney is felled by a Blacksmith with a shotgun (he recovers of course), and then some pictures of the Hampstead 'Topers' who conspire to 'do him in'.