I gutted my concept again, and still went with knights, but in a different context. I decided to go with a political comic as my subject, depicting the President as an obtuse knight with a very tired donkey steed and North Korea's dictator as a warrior in the same time period. I started by sketching on paper, inking it, and erasing what lines I could. The rest were removed digitally using Levels, which is unusual for me because I usually use a red or blue pencil and just remove that color. As you can see, I don't have the best scanner at home for scanning a large sketchbook, but I also didn't remember what settings I usually fiddle with (it's a new scanner). Since Kyle Webster recently struck a deal with Adobe to only have his brushes available through CC, I got a subscription myself and worked on this at home primarily as a wet media test with my tablet. As you can see, the watercolors and gouache are remarkably realistic, and even act like it as you wo

I feel like this is better explained verbally than visually at the moment. I want to impliment the idea of three images together, but merge them into one with the use of transparency and opaque backgrounds. For example, the castle will be to the left, but the character in the center will be translucent to show he faces a different direction every time. The other idea I have is to be a comic book page, because that's much closer to a "visual narrative."

Before the final proofs were due for Project 3, I ended up changing my concept entirely so it would make a better statement. With this, I created something reflecting on extinction (and also mortality) by linking the sudden death of the dinosaurs by meteor with the atomic bomb and what it could potentially do to humanity.  Before the print, I did tweak one of the men to be more of a focal point and I muted the mushroom cloud just a little to give him more dominance in the image.

I'm currently struggling with my current concept, so I'm considering changing it and using primarily Internet images. I want to stick with "the cycle of life and death" but I'm indecisive and I feel like "the cycle of History" (history repeats itself) would be interesting. I'm going to work on it this weekend to figure out what to do, but we'll see what will happen!

I want to do something along the lines of "the cycle of life and death" -- both in organic form as well as non-organic. To the left of the image I have something to do with the degeneration of stone and sculpture as well as a used cigarette. I plan on using the right to place in the image of the black widow consuming the grub. While I'm not sure where  I want to take this just yet, I do want to use the idea of a cycle of life and death, however the viewer chooses to interpret that.