Synopsis: A couple has a child, but complications arise and a blue pyramid is born instead of a human child. The couple grapples and struggles, especially the wife, as they wait for the doctors to determine how to bring the baby into the human world. The situation continues to worsen, but the doctors find a solution: they cannot bring the baby boy into the human world, but they CAN recreate the conditions to bring the parents into the baby's world of abstract shapes. They will see each other as human, but to the rest of the world, they will appear as alien beings who cannot be understood. Because of their love for the child, the parents join their son.
Here is illustration number 3. I'm quite proud of this drawing and I really think that the perspective is something that I could not have pulled off before. This is probably the closest I came to doing what I wanted with this project with regards to the variety and rhythm of the contour drawing. I actually took reference photos of myself for Polly because it was a very tricky pose. Maybe the subject of a future process blog? Even though a drawing like this takes a lot of time, it's so vital (and very difficult) to push the drawing to tell the story. As an illustrator, you are the director and the actor of the scene. All of the decisions are yours to make. As I drew this, I found it easy to sympathize with Polly. It was painful to be at this point of the story where Polly was being so self-destructive. I've had times (not now) where I was deeply unhappy with myself and my life and also made self-destructive decisions and habits. It is the rare times like this, where drawing becomes more than just a fun pastime and can become a deeply personal journey.
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Ryan Wong
5/17/2017 08:17:43 am
I loved hearing you talk about this drawing and how proud you were of its execution. Just looking at your stuff, it's easy to tell that you care about these characters. And I think that's the first mark of a great artist, that you love your characters first and beckon us into their hurts, their joys, their world. I have no jokey aside this time. I just hope to see you make more and more stuff that you're proud of. Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new. Give us more to see.
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