"We Didn't Start The Fire" hand-inked illustration.

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"We Didn't Start The Fire"
Hand-inked with a dip-pen and Indian ink, 2012.

So.. I love dinosaurs. This is basically a Mickey Mouse-greaser-dinosaur-satanist-tattooed dude. Can't quite remember where the idea came from, I just know I wanted to do it. I started by getting a image of Mickey and an image of a Tyrannosaurus Rex skull. I created a mock-up of the body with the skull and printed it out. After that I drew over it/stylised it with the jacket, knuckle duster and tattoos, before tracing and colouring it in. The next thing was to resize and print ready for A3 ink-age. Once that was done, I just had to sit down with my dip-pen and lightbox and crack on!