the great deranger behind the mask

I am very happy with the way Louis Paul Boon looks on the page. Maybe Lex was right in Tuesday's comments, maybe some sketches bare more likeness with Boon than the final illustration. But I think the facial expression fits the character Jan de Lichte, who was a seventeenth century rogue, deranging and revealing the hypocrisy of his day. A skirt-chaser too. And I think I managed to put that in his face. And before you say anything, I know I depicted Jan de Lichte too old, the historic Jan was broken on the wheel at twenty five. And Boon wrote the novel in the 1950's when he wasn't this old yet either. So I had my editor decide on the age, and he said to give Boon the age we remember him by.