"The Trojan Horse" (charcoal on paper)
You’ve heard the story right? The trojan horse..
So anyway, there’s this dusty red town where a huge industrious steel horse is located. It casts a shadow over the whole town. Some of the people living there don’t mind being in the shadow of this metalic beast and feel protected by it’s bulky majestic frame. They feel that it really is a gift to the people living there, and many of them have grown to actually love the structure. However, there are others in the town who don’t enjoy living in the shadow cast by the iron horse. They want to live more in the sun. To them the horse is not a gift but more a curse.
Sure I paint, but it’s fun to draw analogys from time to time.
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afalloon, about 1 year ago
nice…and its a good analogy. I sympathise dude.
yasmine, about 1 year ago
wow…I love storytelling through art and this really presents a live world. I like the rust which makes the horse look diseased, almost like a corpse, and the smoke streaming out of the horse’s ears. To me this work makes a real statement about living in an industrial age. I can imagine all the town’s people trudging into the horse’s belly to fuel it every day. Kind of reminds me of Dr Seuss’ The Lorax as an environmental tale as well…and of mambo in terms of its style.
Olga Savvidis, about 1 year ago
This is so, so clever and wonderfully off-centre!
FireRabbit, about 1 year ago
Great image and analogy. Am not so sure how I would feel living under a metallic horses’ shadow….
Daniel Speranza, about 1 year ago
wow this is wonderful.
Michael Douglass, 12 months ago
Damn this is very cool, terrific technique.
vjwriggs, 11 months ago
Bloody wicked
mrbond, 11 months ago
Love it!
mcdowell finlyson, 11 months ago
strong drawing, having lived in a town dominated by heavy industry, the image resonates with me strongly
Firedrake, 10 months ago
Maybe the iron horse will one day just walk off into the sunset? Love it
Casey Herman, 9 months ago
Gunn’s Pulp Mill …. your analogy still resonates today. Looks a bit Brick-In-The-Wall-ish, I love it!
Cindy Perrinj..., 9 months ago
Love this creation!!! You have a great imagination!!!
Bridgett Ferguson, 9 months ago
you have an awesome imagination and oodles of talent!!!
i love this!! :)
Angela Ward-Brown, 8 months ago
Fantastic.
Roslyn Slater, 8 months ago
A clever, thought provoking image.
Jeremy Harrington, 8 months ago
fantastic artwork with brilliant detail
Jenny Haskey, 7 months ago
Fantastic!!!
shanghaiwu, 7 months ago
fantastic
Alyson Pearson, 7 months ago
great work
emapearl, 6 months ago
totally WICKED! :) great job
Murray Swift, 6 months ago
Fabulous concept and technique.
kipishiux, 6 months ago
Everything is so cool!!! Fantastic work!
LocoCow, 5 months ago
Well drawn and great perspective take on an ol’ story…
Paula Delley, 5 months ago
Splendid, just wonderful!
paulywog1561, 5 months ago
Mankind has a habit of bringing havoc upon the Earth in the name of progress. He is a slave to money and power.
Some day there will be a new heaven and a new earth, and all greed, sadness, pollution will be gone.
This is a real fine drawing depicting the total disregard for God’s creation, and mankinds bend toward destroying itsself.
Very nice work!
Jen Cannella, 5 months ago
Amazing work of art!
shanghaiwu, 5 months ago
have come back to tell you this is still amazing/brilliant you
KillerNapkins, 5 months ago
very very awesome work… well DONE!
frozenfa, 5 months ago
it’s beautiful.. i once had a dream.. of something like that.. but there’s like alot of them and they’re moving and it frightens me.. hehe.. this piece is beautiful.. the shading’s perfect.. =D
Philip Rogan, 5 months ago
Like the story and love the image, beautifully conceived and executed, lovely lines and shading and dirty charcoal the best choice for such a beast.
David Allen, 5 months ago
Nice work – I love the story attached to it!
Nausinora, 4 months ago
How wonderful!
andreasphoto, 4 months ago
intriguing drawing
happysweetmama, 3 months ago
Great !
David owens, about 1 month ago
its like the 21st troy…with more pain and slower death