The top left is Vincent Van Gough's "Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette." Meant to showcase the similarities between life and death, showing how they're not so different after all

With the Sharks hockey team logo and the charcoal background, I wanted to experiment with different media (charcoal and ink) and the contrast between extremely dark colors with lighter shades of grey and white

Rumi's poem, "On the Day I Die," associates ideas of joy and rebirth with death. "Death is a coming together" he claims.

Jon Bernthal's character in the Netflix show, The Punisher spun a new idea of death

The show revolved around Bernthal's character, Frank Castle, brutally killing and torturing various criminals, murderers, gang leaders, and corrupt government officials.

Castle's character revolves around "punishing" those for their crimes by taking their lives

His character often wears a skull on his vest, (labeled as a memento mori) which is meant to intimidate and traumatize his victims

What does this say about the idea of death?

​Top left and bottom left references explore animal skeletons

Further explored this idea with a quick sketch of a deer skull (possible relation between human death and animal death?)

Top right image implements color with an otherwise black-and-white color scheme (encourages me to add a splash of color to my pieces, could be used symbolically)

Dramatic contrast and hatching techniques with black-and-white portrait (Inspires new techniques and ways to convey shadows)

​More dramatic poses and contrast

Main focus of the page is the reference and sketch of Ghost Rider, a MARVEL comic book superhero

Much like Van Gough's "Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette," I was interested in the liveliness of a character that's seemingly undead

Sporting a black leather jacket and a classic dirtbike, most people seem to find him "cool"

Poses a new question; Why do some take an interest in the imagery of death and skeletons while others are intimidated by it?

Two sketches of two arguably well-known movie characters; Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men and Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck from 2019's Joker

Both are murderers; Fleck is showcased as a loner shunned by society who eventually snaps and becomes deranged

More interesting, however, is Bardem's Anton Chigurh; the agent of death who plays the hand of God and kills for necessity

Death vs murder; Is a fear of murder a fear of death?

Last page acts as a final "photo dump" for unutilized references and ideas

All in black and white except for the last one, which has a blue-gray filter over it

Text at the bottom of the page reads, "We keep having to look for celebrities and our meaning in them, when true meaning is in our core, (and) in our bones."