I really struggled on a name for this piece but then it all hit me at once. This piece kind of makes me think of Eric's struggle to Redeem himself, he punishes himself through the entire graphic novel because he partially blames himself for what Happened to Shelly, and I think the self mutilation was only a part of his punishment. Eric was a very kind person before the incident and I think that killing those people was a kind of punishment in itself, to redeem himself for Shelly. That may not actually be what actually what James was trying to portay, but that's what I took away from it, and I put that into this.

I must apologize though the quality isn't spectacular on this, I'll try to get some better images of it soon, right now this is the best I have, but it does look better than this on the paper.


Though I can't put this up without telling what inspired this piece.

Shadows and Light by *PZB

I was surfing around and bumped into this awesomely done piece done in charcoal, I even commented on how I needed to do more charcoal. So Not only did that piece inspire me to work in charcoal, but I used the over-all pose as well. Obviously, completely different when it comes to detail, but the basic pose is the same, slumped and looking over and down.

Thanks for the inspiration *PZB.

Edit: I decided to put up two other versions of this in my scraps.

Original picture of the drawing
And
Half finished version