Seems like yesterday when I began using our children as model references for illustrations (starting with Heather as baby Jesus in the manger). Now I'm using Rebecca as an adult reference!
Being vertically challenged, I really need to use someone besides myself as a soldier reference because I kept redrawing General Sisera's raiding army so they didn't resemble a bunch of angry dwarfs and Hobbits.
My original idea was to create this same scene by moonlight with a range of blues and grays. Then I wondered if a chariot would be crazy enough to fly through a street guided only by moonlight . Easy to fix – I kept the light/shadows the same but turned the night scene into a morning/late afternoon scene.
Another change I would like to make is replace the spear in the hand of the foreground soldier with a sword ...but there are looming deadlines so on to the next illustration.
Another change I would like to make is replace the spear in the hand of the foreground soldier with a sword ...but there are looming deadlines so on to the next illustration.
Illustrations are for a 6-part Bible lesson series on the book of Judges – Disobedience and Deliverance. There are 36 total images with accompanying lesson text. Print size: 24x34cm. Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter X, Wacom Cintiq 18SX; preliminary sketches were done using ArtRage app for the iPad.
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