Be pure etc

Finally found some time to colour up some of my recent ink work. Here's Torquemada. Unfortunately I realised I didn't save a hi-res version of this before I sent it off to Pete McCosh, but never mind. That'll teach me, eh?

Death to all deviants!

Over on the 2000 AD forum, the very generous Pete McCosh recently announced a comic giveaway extravaganza, asking only for postage costs. I was pretty lucky in that I saw the thread right away and got in early, bagging Impaler #1 (with gorgeous art from Matt Timson), and various issues of Victorian Undead, Rawbones, and Hellblazer. He even threw in an extra (Robocop). See, these are the kind of people who frequent the friendliest message board on the interweb.

Anyway, as a thank you I offered to send him a sketch and asked him to choose a 2000 AD character - and he went for good ol' genocidal tyrant Torquemada. I looked at how different artists have depicted him, and went for a rather stylised, Kev O'Neill-inspired grotesque version.