So I did my normal pre-sketch on the computer. (Pre-sketch is where I professionally scribble with the tablet), and then I sorta made this out of it. An hour or two, not bad. Somehow, all my people look sad. Maybe that'll be my next challenge: making a happy face (yes, just a face, no head attached) But that would make it sort of a creepy happy. Whatever! I'll figure it out later.
It's kinda dark. Maybe that's why my characters are all sad. How could you be happy when you have a lightning bolt in your hair, are standing under a crescent moon, are wearing a starchy purple shirt, and your face is unnaturally colored (I'll work on my coloring, I promise) =).
But maybe this could be a terrific analogy. He is surrounded by natural beauty that is just screaming of God's magnificence (lush fields, luminescent moons) yet his eyes can't naturally see past the darkness. His dejected state is merely self-imposed. He can't appreciate the beauty because of the darkness. It distracts him and while he knows that there is incredible beauty out there, he settles for less. His own little world. The darkness lies between him and fully understanding who God is. Deep, deep down he truly desires to know God, but the temporal has much more appeal to him because of it's swift attainableness (not really a word, just clarifying). He needs to recognize that his bondage to the temporal is not inescapable, there is a stunning offer of gracious deliverance. The word of God is his flashlight if he will leave his temporal, immediate world and travel on the footpath of salvation towards the wonderful end goal of being united with his Creator.
Not a perfect analogy, but I think it's fun to think about stuff like that, it can help me to see new perspective. For example, the Word being a flashlight is similar to Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path
I guess I never really thought about it showing the way like a flashlight. With a flashlight, you move it around to see where you're going. So that could be like meditating on Scripture, you have to look at it from different angles until you know it by heart.
Anyway, I got all that from that drawing. I hope that some of that was encouraging to you. The drawing was fun to do, and making up the analogy was even more fun.
Sé onr sverdar sitja hvass! - May your swords stay sharp!
