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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[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 be. And one day, one way or another, Pretty-Boy is going to understand that.

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