SF&F Picture 89 out of 93 by Devon Cady-Lee.

SciFi and Fantasy Art: Story for a Princess

Illustration assignment for an Arabic story, which included ants, sesame seeds, honey, a bleeding rooster, date pits, an endless field of sunflowers, princesses and lily flowers that shine like stars... and that's not even half of it. The story is that a king holds a contest for his daughter's hand in marriage: whomever can tell him a story and convince him it's not a lie will win. After several bachelors, a serf-class man recites this surreal, psychotropically-induced romp through the unconscious loaded with all this archetypical images and weird happenings, and somehow he convinces the king. Unfortunately, when the princess is unveiled at the wedding ceremony she is the most horrible, ugly woman the man has ever seen. He runs home in fear and prays to Allah that he escaped, but when he starts to pray he notices an ant crawling down his arm, a sunflower seed, a sesame seed and a date pit on the table (all images in the story). So... Yeah. It was a pretty crazy story with a lot of images, challenging to come up with a composition. Entirely done in Photoshop 7.


	Categories: [Angels, Religious, Spiritual, Holy] [Dream Imagery] [Magic and Sorcery, Spells, etc.] [Book Illustration] Techniques: [Computer Painted from Scratch] Inspirations: [Other Author]

Date	Name	Comment
28 Mar 2004	Shadow	Loading... I really don't know exactly what it is but i really don't care either! This is a high rate piece by any standards. WOW! I give it a 10.
28 Mar 2004	Ranjit Singh	Loading... Wow! The details and the layout are awsome.
29 Mar 2004	Guillermo 'Gwydionn' García	Loading... very nice. decidedly strange but amazing! Great job!
29 Mar 2004	Diana Alexandra Stanciu	Loading... Just goes to showyou that not only are you good at drawing people, coloring masterfully, but you also are an exceptional painter! great job!!!!!!!
29 Mar 2004	MoRDoC	Loading... This pic is awesome, a lot of details and nice colors. I'm one of the people that first looks at covers before I buy a book. That cover would defenately make me buy it.
4 May 2005	Alia Honegger	Loading... Woaaaah..... Now THAT'S good artage.

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