Nate Bellegarde's stunning Two-Face sketch revisited as a fully-inked and colored print
Some of you may recall when I posted about artist Nate Ballegarde's sketches of the Joker and Two-Face about a year and a half ago. I was a bit mixed on his Joker, but I loved his Two-Face, especially one sketch in particular which I thought was absolutely stunning and a pretty-darn-well perfect portrait of Harvey:
In an extra bit of awesomeness, Mr. Bellegarde himself (fetorpse) actually chimed in to comment on my own comments, during which he mentioned that he was planning on doing that sketch as a full illustration, which he would then sell as a print. Which, of course, was incredibly exciting. But of course, a year and a half went by, and there was no news on Mr. Bellegarde's front, and I started to wonder if maybe that was just going to be one of those projects that fell by the wayside, as so many of my own projects have a way of doing.
And then, as I was Tumblr'ing through the usual blogs, I noticed something new on fyeahtwoface that caught my attention:
Quoth Nate: Uhhh I am pretty excited to announce this little biddy Two-Face print I will be selling at SDCBC this week. They are 11x8.5 inches on nice glossy paper and I will sign them for you and everything! Whatever I bring home from the con will be available to everyone else on Earth to buy online. Hooray!
Hooray indeed! Although Henchgirl has voted any prospects of buying this as a print unless I agree to have it out only when we're hosting company that we want to freak out. I can deal with that.
That said, in all honesty, I’m not sure which version I prefer! I think I just barely prefer the look in Harvey’s good eye in the sketch to the print version, especially the way he seems intensely lost in his own tormented thoughts rather than looking at himself in the reflection. That’s the one thing that really endears me to the original over the finished version, whereas everything else is pure, horrifying, haunting sex. Good god, that’s how you make Two-Face look stylish and utterly disturbing at the same time. WANT.
In an extra bit of awesomeness, Mr. Bellegarde himself (fetorpse) actually chimed in to comment on my own comments, during which he mentioned that he was planning on doing that sketch as a full illustration, which he would then sell as a print. Which, of course, was incredibly exciting. But of course, a year and a half went by, and there was no news on Mr. Bellegarde's front, and I started to wonder if maybe that was just going to be one of those projects that fell by the wayside, as so many of my own projects have a way of doing.
And then, as I was Tumblr'ing through the usual blogs, I noticed something new on fyeahtwoface that caught my attention:
Quoth Nate: Uhhh I am pretty excited to announce this little biddy Two-Face print I will be selling at SDCBC this week. They are 11x8.5 inches on nice glossy paper and I will sign them for you and everything! Whatever I bring home from the con will be available to everyone else on Earth to buy online. Hooray!
Hooray indeed! Although Henchgirl has voted any prospects of buying this as a print unless I agree to have it out only when we're hosting company that we want to freak out. I can deal with that.
That said, in all honesty, I’m not sure which version I prefer! I think I just barely prefer the look in Harvey’s good eye in the sketch to the print version, especially the way he seems intensely lost in his own tormented thoughts rather than looking at himself in the reflection. That’s the one thing that really endears me to the original over the finished version, whereas everything else is pure, horrifying, haunting sex. Good god, that’s how you make Two-Face look stylish and utterly disturbing at the same time. WANT.