Progress - Week 7

After reviewing the verses I initially decided to illustrate, I have since changed two to be more fitting to an overall theme: Dreams & Visions (What Has Happened & What is to Come). My first two pieces come from Revelation, highlighting the Beast of the Sea and the horses and riders coming down, spreading smoke, fire, and sulfur. The new verses in mind come from the books Matthew and Genesis, of dreams that came to pass.

Matthew 2:13-15 (NIV) "When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. 'Get up,' he said, 'take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.' So he got up, tool the child and mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: 'Out of Egypt I called my son.'"

Above is the sketch, background concept lighting, and notes/direction from my mentor. This upcoming week I will adjust the perspective of the wings more fittingly and adjust the "come here" hand gesture to have more of a dynamic pose than just "static and flat."

The second revisited verse comes from Genesis 41:17-21 (NIV):

"Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile, when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds. After them, seven other cows came up—scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt. The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first. But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up. ' "

Above is just the beginnings of concept and some collage of elements I wish to incorporate. I received feedback not to limit myself to just within the borders of the artboard, so I brought out that bottom left cow to make it as if the viewer was more in the space. Secondly, for the sky, I plan on creating an overcast look toward the top left, closest to the skinny cows creating an ominous foretelling of what lies ahead.

Lastly, I cleaned up some of my beginning pieces, working on them slowly but surely. Below, I used a cartoonist brush to create clean black lines for the final illustration and added a softer rendering for the lighting on the horses.