Carlos Ezquerra 1947-2018
Added 2018-10-06 02:25:55 +0000 UTCSo, Judge Dredd artist and co-creator Carlos Ezquerra died earlier this week, from lung cancer. He was an early influence of mine...in art school I would point out to my friends and fellow students just what was great and unique about him, lol. He had this way of outlining with weight to show distance, but also broke those lines up with bumpy dashes that signaled that this object was also in a different focus in the depth of field... something I have seen no other artist do (I did this on the main figure above). In fact he was so influential to me that I find myself drawing characters looking too much like Carlos designed them all the time... as recently as Buck in Ghosts... though in Buck's case I have bent him consciously away from this resemblance.
The above piece is a take on what Judges of Mega City One do when they retire... they take "the Long Walk" either out in to the Cursed Earth (the irradiated wasteland between the Mega Cities) or into the Undercity (the eastern seaboard of the U.S that was paved over and abandoned when the Mega City was created). Both options to bring law to the lawless. In the 1995 film Judge Dredd, Chief Judge Fargo took the Long Walk into the Cursed Earth. I based the garb I put Carlos in here on Max Von Sydow's costume from that scene. The first depiction of the long walk was from an early story that was recently expanded on by a really good fan film called Judge Minty. I highly recommend watching.
