One Drawing for Every Page of Moby Dick

Matt Kish, a self taught artist, is drawing 500+ illustrations for every page of Moby Dick.Matt was inspired by artist Zak Smith's project where he made one illustration for every page of Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow. So he decided to do his favorite book, Moby Dick.Learn more about the project here.

Some of the art I'm making depends on the viewer having at least some general knowledge of Moby-Dick, and I think it would probably be really hard for someone who hasn't read the book to get the whole story simply by looking at my art. When deciding what to illustrate from a particular page, I try to focus on what seem to be the most important elements from that part of the story.

Page 002 : But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive.Page 061 : ...and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood; most monstrous and most mountainous! That Himmalehan, salt-sea Mastodon, clothed with such portentousness of unconscious power, that his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and malicious assaults!Page 101 : Ship and boat diverged; the cold, damp night breeze blew between; a screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled; we gave three heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate into the lone Atlantic.Page 083 : "...hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling..."Page 109 : "I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale."(credit: Applied Arts)