Gerhard: Something Fell

GERHARD:

Hi Tim,

You may or may not have noticed that I'm between websites/blogs right now so you get first crack at these two 'Gerebus' commissions.

The first, the single figure above, was a simple request and modest price.

The other one is the kind of request I've come to expect from Brian C. Imaginative, challenging, a lot of work and ultimately a lot of fun. His original idea was to have a triptych that features Gerebus in a dream sequence tumbling across three distinctive Gerhard landscapes - the giant dark tower of demonic faces, the moon and a well-stocked bar.

My first layout had the figure in relative fixed position. My take on it was that he is falling from the chair the whole time through the imagined/remembered backgrounds. I thought of putting the demon heads into the shape of the Regency mostly so I could put a sunset in behind to give some colour to the top part of the piece.

Brian suggested he'd like more movement and that he sees this as a 'reverse ascension'. So I figured that the moon should be on top and we went with falling diagonally, size increasing incrementally, I added the tipped chair and stein, and had Gerebus extend past the border as if he's fallen right out of the picture. Not that anything should be inferred or implied by that.

'Something Fell'
Image size is 10" x 15", ink pen and W&N dyes on watercolour paper.
(See more images at ComicArtFans)