illustration friday: tales & legends
illustration friday: “tales & legends.” pen on card stock.
artist comments: well, i have a lot of catching up to do. my pen needs to catch up with the ideas in my head. either that, or i simply need to work in pencil first, then move over it with pen. and why haven’t i tried to use my charcoals yet? oh yeah…it’s because i don’t have any free time. i think this took less than an hour to make, and it shows. it’s like two different compositions mashed together. not so nice, in my opinion. more importantly, it doesn’t capture the image i imagined. i need to work harder.
i’ve rediscovered my fascination with fairy tales, folklore, and mythology once again. this time, my interest lies within the form of the travelling tale-teller: the bard, the skald, the troubadour or wandering minstrel. the one who passes oral history from one generation to the next. although i don’t think this illustration quite captured it, i have a reverence for folklore in all its forms and cultures. it’s the supreme celebration of the mind, its imagination, and humankind’s curiosity of the unknown. it’s become a lost art; even songwriting has suffered a similar death.
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