Sunday, November 7, 2021

Rise of the Red Skull

I provided the pencil work, then my friend Tom inked over the pencils.  I scanned the inked artwork and colored it in free-to-download Gimp.
Finished art

Finished inks

Pencil layout

Great Awakening Caricatures

I created these caricatures of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield for a woman in my Bible study.  Edwards and Whitefield helped lead the 18th-century Great Awakening revival movement.
Most of the Jonathan Edwards reference pictures showed the same facial characteristics, making picking reference pictures easy.  Many of the George Whitefield pictures looked like different people.  I collected the most common depictions and hope I captured Whitefield's actual likeness.
I downloaded the free Inkscape vector illustration program a couple months ago.  Adobe won't re-authorize the programs I already own, and I don't want to rent my programs from the Cloud.  I have over 20 years of Adobe Illustrator ingrained in my head, and Inkscape shares almost nothing similar to IllustratorI'm getting it down though.  I created these in Inkscape.
1 Corinthians 10:31- So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Ephesians 5:14- ...Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.