Illustration Friday - "Surrender" by Lee Clemmer

Here’s my entry for “Surrender”, this week’s topic for Illustration Friday.  The concept here was inspired by Enter the Void, an amazing movie I think everyone should go see, which deals with what happens after death (based on the afterlife conception as written in the Tibetan Book of the Dead).  Basically the idea here is one of surrendering oneself in the moments after death.  Unfortunately the illustration here isn’t as clean as I would’ve liked, there just wasn’t the time!

The drawing was done using a Pigma Brush Pen and watercolor.

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Untitled No. 33 by Richard Colman

Vomit, decapitation, lewd sexual acts â€” what’ s not to like?  While all these are in fact exhibited in the works of Richard Colman, raunchy or offensive would certainly not be adjectives to describe his work.  It is rather an uncomfortable world that he portrays, one in which its characters are seemingly dominated by each other and the world itself, one in which hopelessness reigns supreme (or maybe it’s just me).  Remarkably, he works in watercolor, surprising given the fact straight lines and flat surfaces of his paintings.  Richard hail from Bethesda (which I used to live quite close to for four years) but is now part of the LA scene.

You can check out more of his work on his website, RichardColmanArt.com.

4 more images after the jump.

Bears With Human Feet by Richard Colman

Untitled No. 17 by Richard Colman

Untitled No. 18 by Richard Colman

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