Tim Burton’s cinema transforms outsiders, artificial worlds and childhood unease into a highly recognizable gothic imagination. This original mixed-media portrait uses elongated forms, dark contours and controlled distortion to respond to that visual universe without imitating it. Rather than producing a polished likeness, I treat the face as a meeting point between melancholy, humour
Physical print available on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1751356817/and theatrical fantasy. Created in Istanbul, the work belongs to my ongoing series of filmmakers and cultural figures interpreted through grotesque, expressive and underground portraiture. Original Tim Burton illustration by İlker Ortaç, an Istanbul-based writer, illustrator and visual artist.