#I listened to soooo much Ethel Cain while drawing this

[something-universe]

“The god thou serv’st is thine own appetite…”

Artist’s Notes: Joshua’s hand casts an “anatomically accurate” heart-shaped hole in Caesar’s chest, and the end of the cigarette is also in the shape of a heart. I gave Joshua a tear mole at the corner of his eye, as they commonly foreshadow a life of pain and broken relationships. The ivy growing around the damaged statue of Christ symbolize both a form of redemption or transformation in the wasteland, but also simultaneously the act of clinging to the dead- which I feel fits both Joshua and Caesar’s characters in different ways.

The second illustration is a little rougher than the first one, mainly because I was writing an essay on Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus while drawing on the side. This was also where I got the quote above.