Oh man, this was great. Attila (great fuckin' name by the way), who does I Drink Milk Zine and tape label, got ahold of me after he won my X-Rated MAxi Swatch on Ebay (and paid immediately). He says, "Since I paid so much for the clock, would you consider doing something for the label=)?" I said "hell yeah" (I guess he doesn't know I do this for free). He told me that HoldXTrue was breaking up, I knew of them because of ThirdXParty Records releases but knew nothing about them. Attila told me that they were THE biggest and best edge band in Hungary and had been going strong for 10 years but that they were breaking up. He said that to commemorate their last show that he was doing a tape and a zine and he wanted me to do one and then Slaba would do the other. I asked them if they minded if I did the zine cover, as I had never done one and they were both cool with it. He said he wanted black and white and one color, and after some good feedback on the way I depicted the process of the Force Fed image, I thought I'd show the process of this one too.
First pic is the original drawing, they wanted a white ninja committing ritual suicide.
After some feedback from several people and statements that included, "His head is too small" and "He looks like a Muslim ninja", I went back and tried some other things, so here's #2.
I was much happier with this one so then I added the red, what other color was there?
I felt that that wasn't strong enough, so I thought, "I've got to go with a bloody splattered X in the background". I got some red tempra paint and a paint brush and went to town. I then laid that behind the drawing and traced it in Prismacolor marker and that's what this one is.
And as far as I can tell, this is the cover of the zine.
