The Year in Fighting: 2019 is a book that I am illustrating while concurrently writing & illustrating MMA Squared. It’s a more sober, artistic endeavor about what happens inside the cage, letting go of the hype trains, PR disasters, and marketing angles. Let’s look at part 2.
This is not only part 2, but also page 2 of the physical book, and I realized that the 3” x 3” format that I’d been working in had some limitations. For one I was cropping the fights’ limbs too often, and their faces weren’t always visible. To address this I started working in a larger, landscape orientation, and added portraits alongside the fight scenes.