It's been quite a while since I last posted mainly my artwork on my exploration blog, but this is a specific topic I wanted to cover ever since I explored through people's own tastes on particular movies centering what we work mainly for our Lord + biblical themes of forgiveness, obedience and faith.
I'm considered to be a spiritual person, to my personal beliefs and experience, it's really challenging for me to focus on anything but religious study, I always felt more blended in just trusting and gaining the amount of wisdom of what I'm being truly taught by.
Hebrews 11:1 says that "Faith assures us of things we expect and convinces us of the existence of things we cannot see."
I have extremely alot of amounts of faith because somewhere deep in my mind that whatever I do, I should be doing it with love and respect. I know I cannot see my inner vision opened to Jesus, but I know he's there.
I also have to explain why I'm more spiritual than religious. No offense. Judging the Bible is like judging how I behaved in 10th grade. You may not agree with all of it, at least in my personal opinion, but you can't just be harsh about what happened during that time. I for one felt like parts of what the true treasure The Bible taught me, gave me the chills, but that's just minor nitpicks. I used to state my favorite talents as idols before knowing what the word "idol" actually meant, and simply never said it again, and art in particular. God made everything including art, he knows that everyone should have a sense of skill to push through the test. It was having the ability of courage and strength but I always wanted to draw as well. The genius to come up with characters you can create with your superb imagination and come up with your own stories that can relate to audiences, and think and feel around them, is amazing. I gotta give credit to my cinema heroes, Walt Disney, Powell & Pressburger, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones and Gene Kelly.
With films being a major obsession of mine, I think it's time for me to show you what I actually came up with.
A project called Protection Of The Lamb. A film about The Lamb of God and The Lion of Judah.
This is one of the main antagonists, Samson II directly based off Samson, one of the last judges of Israel. Both have strength, but switch roles as Samson II a Lion wants to viciously cut off people's hands and is confident enough to know that what he's about to do next is his worse responsibility.
I loved drawing the heck out of Samson II as I like the fuzzy, messy hairstyle alot in movies, and his color palette + lightning bolt clearly represents his strength but dull dark and cruel nature.
Next I wanted to create The Lion Of Judah, when it came to drawing a more friendly design and not stolen stock animal images, I wanted to keep the bare minimum for his facial features. He's just your normal lion look. If there's anything that I could not take for animation critique, it would be the blandness of design. I personally have alot to say about critiques, as they honestly helped myself to become a better storyteller, better at dialogue, it actually made me like the more serious, deep and captivating pace of movies than 8 minute cartoons, or a musical with endless amount of happy faces but call it fluff. Now both of those elements in films I still enjoy to this day, but it felt like there needed to be more to the skill I'm destined to create in the near feature. Anyways back on track with character design, the lion design on the middle right is by far my favorite out of the bunch and still continuing to use that version of Judah furthermore.
Lamb was by far the hardest for me to come up with because it's kinda hard to basically draw a Lamb and ends up looking completely like a sheep almost like telling if something is supposed to look like a rabbit or a bunny or an alligator and a crocodile. WHO AND WHAT IS IT ANYWAY? It's honestly kinda easier to tell the difference to draw a cartoon lamb and a sheep. Sheep have less wool on their bodies while Lamb's are more muscular and have ton of wool on them, so this is the best I can come up with below. Maybe needs a little bit more construction and personality but seemingly passable enough on it's own.
I always loved talking about people visioning what Jesus is like to them. The Lord Of Lords, King Of Kings. No matter what you view him as, his love and peace is in you, and still inspires millions to this day. I imagine him as part of The Holy Spirit, the truth and the life but also a nurturing guide who offers truth.
I feel like this project is off to a decent start so far. When it comes to filmmakers wanting to create spiritual themed content, it's mostly related to what the people have a belief in. It's true that there are other religions besides Christianity and everyone has a subjective taste on what they are interested in, and this isn't meant to exploit anyone who isn't considered a Christian to make a film mostly surrounding elements of characters who are holy, whatever you choose to believe in, it's an honest critque that you should respect who your aiming for and try to blend in stuff that does relate to your personal perspective in faith-based media while also understanding where other people are coming from.
Hope you enjoyed this post, and God Bless. ❤️
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