Ok, I got two in for the OC fair for the mixed media amateur class. Hopefully, next year I can go in as a professional. I've been pretty fortunate that I've managed to take home a ribbon and award for each time I have entered in the fair. One of these days I'll have to actually follow the fair's theme for the year. I think it was a frog last time.
The Mother was created for my wife when our son was born. It was a bookend for The Father, which did not make it in. Two judges ruled for its admission but the third judge did not. I figured on this because the theme was basically the same where you had a parental elephant caring for its offspring.
The original image is a small 8.5 x 11 inked onto a piece of copy paper. I scanned it into CS3 and spent about 2 hours adding color and detail until it was completed. The Mother and The Father can both be seen by following the Illustrations link on the side bar of this blog.
The Darkest Day PT1: With>you is part of an on going motif based on an illustrated story that I will one day have to finish. It's my opus of sorts. A look into immortality and the consequences for a man who believes in doing the right thing, but has no faith.
What would happen to him if everything he had known were to become mere paragraph in a history book? Everything from our age and what came before it is wiped from the map of the human condition, while he is incased in a ghostly state.
The last remnants of the bible are four sheets from the New Testament and have as much weight of relevance akin to the Rosetta Stone and its impact on our modern day society and science.
Would you fight to protect those four crumbling pages, even if you didn't believe? Also, if you only could touch the real world only through the mediums of metals and lifeless material, what would you become? That is the Tychon Armor in a nutshell.
The Darkest Day Part 1 is a flash of premonition or a dream where our central hero observes himself as an insane monster in the abysmal future. The forces of men draw him out like Grendel in order to rid themselves of this beast forever. There on the battlefield in his insanity he is confronted by a warrior who is the reincarnation of his daughter.
With>you: by Linkin Park was used as the inspiration for the scene's emotional weight.
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