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We All Start Somewhere

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This is possibly the creepiest picture I've done.

It started out with a suggestiong from my co-worker, who wanted me to re-create the Joker but as a child. I decided to give it a shot, but play with the Joker that Nolan created in The Dark Knight.

I never intended for the child Joker to have the bloody cheeks. Originally it was going to be something like face paint but ended up looking like this, which works better in the creepy department.

As I was working on the piece, I worked a small story for this troubled boy. He's tormented in his house, abused by his father and neglected by his mother. School is no better, with children beating him down on his tacky clothes and strangeness.

One day, after being physically tormented by kids after dressing as a clown for halloween, the boy snaps, and mentally his fear of life turns inward and completely dissolves into fearlessness. He is bloody and bruised, the black clown make up oozing down his cheeks, his cheeks smeared with blood, his eye black and swollen. The boy has lost all sense of humanity, all sense of empathy for anyone and anything.

Rapidly, his mental state detiorates and as he grows older and more unstable, he experiences the harshness of the steets and what he takes in only makes him more maniacle.

He grows into the Joker, into a viscious, fearless monster hidden in human flesh.



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Done in Prisma marker on bristol paper.
Image size
2227x1640px 2.17 MB
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doodler89's avatar
Love how creepy and dark this is!