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studying the many looks of the lizard through the decades, found that the character remained recognizable by his aspect, attitude and attire but, his physiognomy was somewhat "undefined" from artist to artist, from story to story and even panel to panel...

i looked more at the early representations of the character chronologically following ditko's, romita's and gil kane's but also had an unavoidable influence from the more angular design and shadowed renditions by todd mcfarlane, which i devoured so viciously in the 90s that have sunken to a subconscious level! (he he)

also tried going back to an actual lizard but that just looked somewhere between lifeless, like reptiles look most of the time and ... cute? ... which are associations you dont really want for this classic, b-horror, tormented, scientist-super-villain
however it was very useful to draw all the reptiles for some gesturing and the rendering of the skin... also multiple lizards and dinosaurs appear in the 8 pager so...

this is an early prelim illustration i drew in prep for the story "curt connor's in shed; prologue" written by zeb wells and colored on the book by mat hollingsworth published in web of sipider-man #6

more of these coming up

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connors shooting the serum (... on his exposed stub!!) was something i though was a little over the top, or rather way low under the bottom, for a regular spider-man book but it made it in...
i drew it to frame connors deprived side... avoiding the depiction of a "clean" pseudo-science to something more obsessive and desperate and self-indulgent, a bit more like an addict ...
later in the story animal cruelty was added to the mix ... making him and his acts so much more questionable.

for my understanding of the character a lot of these ideas and his over all feel, was derived from jeff goldblum's portrayal of professor brundle and his obsessive investigations and addictive process of metamorphosis, in david cornenberg's 1986 remake of the fly

this is a prelim illustration i drew in prep for the story "curt connor's in shed; prologue" written by zeb wells and colored on the book by mat hollingsworth published in web of sipider-man #6

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this is a quick prelim ilustration i drew & colored in prep for the story "curt connor's in shed; prologue" writen by zeb wells and colored on the book by mat hollingsworth published in web of sipider-man #6

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this is a prelim ilustration i drew & colored in prep for the story "curt connor's in shed; prologue" writen by zeb wells and colored on the book by mat hollingsworth published in web of sipider-man #6

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this is a prelim ilustration i drew & colored in prep for the story "curt connor's in shed; prologue" writen by zeb wells and colored on the book by mat hollingsworth published in web of sipider-man #6