Nate Bellegarde's stunning Two-Face sketch revisited as a fully-inked and colored print

[about_faces]

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:

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[kmousie]

That is absolutely stunning. Goodness gracious.

[childings]

Cool, I want it!

[robopengy]

I also saw this on the Tumblrs and have become incredibly paranoid I'll somehow miss the prints when they finally go on sale :S

[mothy_van_cleer]

Harvey's expression makes a little more sense, I think, if you consider the print as the second installment of an already established narrative structure. The instant Harvey locks eyes with his own reflection, his mental turmoil gives way to single-minded, bitter self-loathing (as denoted by the downwards lighting cue). He absolutely hates the horrid creature he's become, the one he knows more intimately than any other criminal he's ever put away. He shudders inside at the things that blind Fate has compelled him to do. And he knows, deep in his heart, there may never be a cure for his affliction, or even a means of reconciliation.

But Two-Face... Two-Face just stares back at him with a dead, hollow eye and a permanent sneer. He's the one who knows what the score really is, and he's laughing. All the moral indignation and bleeding-heart activism in the world won't get you a gun, or a suit, or a limo, or a reputation like theirs. When the world knocks you down, you've got throw a few punches of your own - crack a few skulls, if need

[1mercystreet]

Oh, that's perfect. That self-loathing, that hate, those shadows under his eyes... that utter hate for everything he sees in himself now, underscored by the hellish glow in the reflection of his cigarette end. Is there a hint of a dark halo around his head too, caused by shadow not light? I agree there's a subtle difference between the two pictures caused by the expression in Harvey's good eye, and the b/w one does indeed look a bit more introspective, but I'd be hard pressed to decide which of the two I liked better.

mothy_van_cleer, I love your interpretation of Two-Face sneering back at him! Harvey and Two-Face could even be having a silent argument in this image, with Two-Face berating and mocking Harvey for ever daring to believe there could be anything good left in him