If you read Page 014 – Drafts, you’ll see how elements of this page began there, until I decided it was too crowded and needed some breathing room. I drew this on July 7, 2011, two years after first designing the original page 14, and the same day I drew the Hopper Lighthouse “spy base” addition on Page 14 – Drafts.
I then took the panels from page 14 and added them to the above image:
I later decided it was more dramatic to make it black-bordered. Below, my best friend Gerry Chow colored the entire first issue and a few pages of issue two, in 2015:
Notice in panel 2, it’s only a man who could maybe look a little like Lucian Freud or his self-portraits (and this was a tough one for me, because he was making self-portraits for decades, so how to choose what age he should be for this story??), but it isn’t from an actual painting or particular photo of him. Well in March 2016, seven years after beginning this project, I decided this would not stand! I digitally went in and re-drew that panel’s figure to look like Lucian Freud, Portrait of Frank Auerbach (1975-76), private collection. I think this is interesting that it’s NOT a self-portrait of Freud’s, or even a portrait of Lucian Freud by someone else; but to me, the fact that Freud painted it, it just FEELS so Lucian Freud. I altered the proportions of the face and hair slightly so that it would look more like Freud, and then cut and pasted that digital image into the published page:
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