A Mind in Motion

     Picking up from my last post on themes, I found myself yet again doing up three illustrations but this time it wasn't so much a particular shape that drew them together but a fantastical world. I love to read, as well as game, and when I find myself wrapped up in both with the same kind of fantasy worlds, I'm always pleasantly surprised where my imagination will be inspired by the words and visuals of others. For the current illustrations I've done, it seems I'm drawn to the magical and mythological.      Creatures and places spun into existence in worlds that parallel ours but with heros and heroines in battle regalia or the lone wolves sent to find the hordes of evil on their own with only their magical abilities and their skill of the blade. It's a place where Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja cross paths, or where wizards and hobbits walk on towards Mordor. A land full of magical creatures like Imps and Giants, Wicked Witches, Knights and Pirates. I

         ..."But how is that more terrifying? How can that possibly be worse?"      "Because. If a scenario has a solution or an answer, then cause and effect is occurring and you have something to appease the mind, to resolve what is happening. But when a moment occurs simply because it can? Then you are left with it and all that happened within. You can't reason it away and you can't heal from the damage it causes. It's like an open wound that festers into existence beyond your control and you are forced to deal with it, never knowing why, how, what can I do, and most importantly, what comes next."      There are but mere seconds in any given blink of an eye and within them worlds tilt, life takes its first or last breath and moments impact us that we will never forget.