Lady V

This piece is a reinterpretation of the title character from V for Vendetta, created for Between Heaven and Hellboy, a local exhibition that asked over 100 artists to reimagine their favorite comic book characters. 

I knew I wanted to illustratae a character by Alan Moore, and finally settled on V. Rather than a straightforward rendering, I decided to switch up the gender and play on the aristocratic intrigues that swarmed through England at the time of the Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. His likeness and legend inspired the famous mask, which became such an icon in the graphic novel and movie adaptation, recently revived as a symbol for the Occupy movement. 

In both the comic and the movie, V uses campy theatrics as a weapon, so I felt that oppulent, Elizabethan drag didn't seem too far out of character.