Hope you had a great Christmas!
It's so hard to believe we are almost into a new year...and 2013 at that!!!
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Life has been keeping me very busy. Earlier this month I finished another semester at Mesa Community College...and took an Art History class where I learned a ton.
And speaking of that...if you are in the East Valley of Phoenix I would definitely recommend taking a class from Lindsey Pedersen, an Art History instructor at MCC. She is excellent!!
It's clear I'm not the only one who thinks so...because she has an extremely high rating on ratemyprofessor.com too.
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The Background Story For My Latest Digital Painting
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| Click to Enlarge See A Larger View Of The Final Image Below |
I've still been drawing a lot and digitally painting as time allowed...and after the semester ended finally found the time to finish a digital painting I'd begun long ago.
Started in December of 2011, I worked on the concept a bit using Adobe Photoshop and my Wacom Intuos Tablet and then fairly quickly lost interest and moved on to other things.
As seen in the "process steps" to the left...I just got as far as the weird, green "alien" head last year (top left).
After classes ended this fall I decided to look through my old files and when I saw it, decided to do some work on it again.
I was feeling most dissatisfied with the color choices last year...so this time around the first thing I began to do was mess around with that and experiment with color layers.
And finally something I was more happy with began to emerge.
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So....Why Is It Such A "Creepy / Scary" Image?
I've been interested in creating a graphic novel about the current state of the world and the "end times".
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| Meister The Construction of the Ark of Noah |
And apparently the fallen angels also messed with the DNA of animals.
All this created evil and fearsome, soul-less creatures. These human hybrids were much larger and stronger than man and are called Nephilim (along with other ancient names).
God used the flood to purge the world of this evil.
Unfortunately, afterwards the fallen angels continued their ways and produced more of these creatures.
For example, long after the flood, the Jews were told to take possession of "the Promised Land" and Numbers 13:32-33 gives a report of what they found:
"The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."
Much Later, around the time of Jesus (2,000 years ago) it was recorded in Matthew 24:37-39 (KJV) that "as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." (the return of Jesus and the end of our present world)
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http://alltheangelsshoutedforjoy.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-words-of-jesus-on-signs-of-times.html
Many point to current research being done with human cloning and trans-humanism: the combination of human and animal DNA.
Others point to our popular culture and that movies and TV shows use human evolution as a regular theme.
Still others suggest that "they" are preparing humans for the appearance of these creatures by planting the notion in our minds that these beings will be extra-terrestrial...ALIENS.
The "they" most often mentioned are the powerful elites: The Illuminati, and secret societies...pulling the strings behind the scenes...assassinating leaders and toppling governments...causing wars...dumbing societies down so that they can keep everyone else in a servant class...obedient, uneducated worker drones...who are kept in slavery to drugs, porn, alcohol, video games, etc etc etc.
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So all these themes were in my mind as I worked on this image.
I know many of my Christian friends might recoil at this image...and might think of scripture that tells us to think about what-ever is good, pure and lovely. (Philippians 4:8)
And I have no defense against that...except to say that I have been praying for guidance about what to work on.
And this is something that came from my efforts after those prayers.
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Anyway...that explains my thought process behind this image...and FINALLY...here is the large version of it.
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Click To Enlarge - Jephyr Art - Digital Painting - It Came
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