I have listened to Metallica since the days of cassette tapes, virtually since time began. I recently watched the documentary “Some Kind of Monster” which shows a decidedly different side to the band, which made me appreciate them more as people. So, I decided to do a quick and dirty portrait of James Hetfield.

I love everything that H.P. Lovecraft wrote, his stories are so victorian and florid, especially in what they omit. I started sketching one day and this fellow came out.

I was thinking about the crucifixtion and it occured to me that it would be really cool to have spoken with the centurian who witnessed the whole thing and get his thoughts about it. I imagine it would have been something that he would have had to get away and digest for awhile. I made no attempt to make this historically accurate, so he might not look very realistic to anyone enjoying Roman history.

I was reminiscing the other day about all these old Japanese cartoons I used to watch, Go Nagai giant robot type stuff. So I decided to do a sketch that would capture the crazy look of those characters. The More I worked on it the more it seemed to look like Elvis, so I just went with it!