 While many artists employ drawings either as preliminary studies for paintings or separate statements, Klabunde's are both.While serving to guide the compositions of his large oils on canvas, they are also finished statements in their own right.Klabunde is sometimes compared to Francis Bacon, as the two artists share an ability to create the sense of an encounter with a palpable human presence placed in a frontal pose at the center of the composition, invariably against dark backgrounds that cast the figures in stark relief.