The Crow inks by James O'Barr over blue line pencils by Patrick Rolo

A long time ago I was browsing Youtube and found a random video someone had posted. They showed James a sketch they'd done of The Crow and James actually asked him if he could ink it. I thought it was amazing and I've been a little bit obsessed about it since.

The original pencils for this piece are by artist Patrick Rolo. I really love the pencils for this one and so thought it would be another that would be really fun to see James Ink. I was really excited when he agreed to do it. He changed it up a lot and really made it his own. It lets go of some of the qualities of the original but came out as a classic style crow piece. I love both.