Moon Knight MARLENE ALRAUNE by Bill Sienkiewicz (2012)

This is an 11" x 17" piece by Bill Sienkiewicz. I commissioned him in 2011 at the Wizard World Anaheim convention in April and this was completed in 2012, at the Wonder Con Anaheim (CA) show in March on Saturday 03/17/12, so it was just shy of a year long process. He finished it off with colorful pencils in-person, so I witnessed the creative art process of how this was created and completed. It was enjoyable seeing how he used the colors, layering and blending them like a live art demo show. This was originally commissioned as a request for a nude rendering of Marlene, from Moon Knight, one of the first mainstream series Bill Sienkiewicz worked on, and one that I actually grew up reading, which he made popular, and I'd asked for it on 11" x 17" sized paper at a convention, and he did complete a commission at that show, but it was the wrong size paper and pose (I have that image of the original commission that he ended up taking back and then re-doing another one for me, the one you see here), so that was in part to the delay and longer process.