ABIGAIL LARSON
Abigail works primarily with pencil, ink, watercolor, and Photoshop, creating unique mixed-media illustrations.
Her greatest inspirations are fairytales, folklore and ghost stories. The works of Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, the Brothers Grimm, Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, and many classic gothic works of fiction, such as Dracula and Frankenstein have always stirred her imagination. Abigail’s main artistic influences are artists such as Arthur Rackham, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Maurice Sendak, Edward Gorey, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Harry Clarke, Dorothy Lathrop, John Bauer, Jennie Harbour, Aubrey Beardsley, Yoshitaka Amano, Marjorie Miller, Alphonse Mucha, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and John William Waterhouse, as well as animators/directors Don Bluth, Hayao Miyazaki, Sylvain Chomet, Tim Burton, Henry Selick, and Guillermo Del Toro.
Starting in 2009, Abigail’s work has been shown throughout America from Richmond to NYC to Los Angeles, as well as galleries in London, Paris, and Madrid. Her illustrations have been featured in various publications including ImagineFX, Clip Studio, Spectrum Fantastic Art, Art Fundamentals, The Graphic Canon of Children’s Literature, Rue Morgue, and Digital Artist. She’s worked with DC/Vertigo, DC kids, Universal, Dark Horse, Image, IDW, Titan Comics, Skybound, SYFY, Sideshow Collectibles, Netflix Animation, Universal, Disney Books, and Warner Brothers.
Her fully-illustrated picture book, The Cats of Ulthar by H.P. Lovecraft was released in November of 2016, and that same year she teamed up with Universal Pictures and Desert Owl Games to create The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse, the companion game to “The Huntsman” feature film. Abigail’s first tarot deck with author Sasha Graham, The Dark Wood Tarot, was released June 2020, and she has also illustrated The Nightmare Before Christmas Tarot Deck & Guidebook, “The Horror Tarot“, and “Beetlejuice Tarot Deck and Guide“
In 2021-2022 Abigail was a character designer on Netflix’s original animated series, “Blue Eye Samurai” (2023). She has also worked in concept art and character design for projects at Illumination and Warner Bros. (2023-2024). Abigail also illustrates books and comics.
She resides in Turin, Italy with her husband, Davide.
