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A Triptych of Joseph Merrick "The Elephant Man".
Medium: Ball point pen on comic book paper (14"x17")
Photoshop was used to add the old photograph effect.
The idea was to not make the focus on his appearance, the disfigurement. It was to show the man, a glimpse of his life. To see him from the inside out. It also provide a small insight to the pain he must have endured, the skeletal contortions.
The "walking" Merrick is used to help the flow from one panel to the next. The final panel refers to the need expressed in the film by David Lynch. Wanting to sleep like a normal person...
Medium: Ball point pen on comic book paper (14"x17")
Photoshop was used to add the old photograph effect.
The idea was to not make the focus on his appearance, the disfigurement. It was to show the man, a glimpse of his life. To see him from the inside out. It also provide a small insight to the pain he must have endured, the skeletal contortions.
The "walking" Merrick is used to help the flow from one panel to the next. The final panel refers to the need expressed in the film by David Lynch. Wanting to sleep like a normal person...
Image size
3867x2000px 7.51 MB
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I know how it feels Joseph, I two want to be a normal human being.