Drawing: Revenge

Drawing: Revenge

I had a lot of thoughts in the progress of this drawing... most of all, i was quite happy with the result of "Alpha's Cry", and the technique.

Having completed that work, i wanted to further investigate how animals can create powerful emotion-icons to humans. I decided on a lion's roar, blocking out the immense amount of work that comes with their mane.. A lion angry.
One time i came to work, and without even thinking i drew a tree onto their whiteboard. I'ver never before drawn trees. It always were Smiley faces, horses, lovehearts...

I quit work two days later, and when i saw the boss a while later, he told me that he's gonna keep that drawing on the notice board. "I like it", he said. "the Tree of Life."

Many days on, i was progressing on my lion, and without hesitation, i turned my attention to the background and drew the tree again. The tree of Life, in the storm of Life.

Spontaneously, in my mind i created a scene of the Lion King. Mufasa returns, but taking in the soulless death of his beloved home, he can nothing but roar, roar in sorrow, in anger, and in pain, like the final roar of someone tortured to the border of death.
They return, and when they return, they'll be stronger than ever.
What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger - and by God, it creates a more powerful hunger for revenge than they could ever imagine.


References:

"Roar" by SeabyAndGary on deviantArt

"Lion's Roar"by andie252 on deviantArt

and a Google Photo.

Drawn with
-Artline200 0.4
-an amazing pen that my sister found abandoned: Pilot Marqueur A Dessin. A tip so fine I wouldn't have imagined it exists...
- when i got lazy with the background, i switched to a black FaberCastell pen and a Staedtler Mars Lumograph 8B pencil.

Also cropped 2cm from the bottom to correct the ratios. Not sure whether i should take away even more from the bottom?