If you want an artist or anyone creative to implode, curl up into the fetal position, or collapse like a myotonic goat just tell them they can do WHATEVER they want. Artist NEED a little direction in order to have something to fight against. We need order to break the bonds and let our free minds run in the muck that is creative chaos. If we start off in chaos we simply freeze since it is the only response to chaos...to stop.
So today I decided to intentionally collide my love of fine art and comic books. I was lucky as a child to have parents who supported my love of drawing and encouraged me to open my eyes to all art...including those silly comic books.
I found myself in an artistic slump so I was flipping through a book showing the symbolism of the Sistine Chapel searching for anything to practice on. I love Michelangelo's style and his ability to accentuate the human musculature. As I came across the classic painting of the creation of Adam I realized I had never seen the special opportunity to modernize the scene.
The above picture is my homage to the artist who changed the world and the artist who made me even want to draw int he first place, Jim Lee.
It was a simple practice piece to force myself to homogenize two very different styles.
Enjoy and know that tomorrow may bring the creative bounty for which I desire or it will render me incapacitated and I'll just stiffen and fall over
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