7. Big Man with a Gun

Materials: Colored pencil, charcoal, and pastel on large sketch pad.

Process: I took a reference photo of myself holding a friend’s 3D-printed toy gun and sketched it on the page. After that I scribbled a chaotic background and darkened the area around the gun to make it slightly more three-dimensional.

Ideas: To reflect the most brief song on the album, I decided to go with a simple look, focusing on capturing the song’s chaos. “Big Man with a Gun” is important because it is the character’s first embrace of violence before “A Warm Place”, his last glimpse of hope and a comforting moment before everything collapses.


 

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