My Illustration Friday attempt for tales and legends.
This is Icarus: a character from Greek mythology. As the story goes, his father Daedalus, fashioned a pair of wings for himself and his son, made of feathers and wax. Before they took off Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too close to the sun, as the wax would melt, nor too close to the sea, as the wax would dampen. Overcome by the sublime feeling that flying gave him, Icarus soared through the sky joyfully, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted his wings. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms. And so, Icarus fell into the sea...
It's always been one of my favourites.
9 comments:
I always loved this story. Great forms and a really nice flow to the piece.
Beautiful illo.Love the composition and the colours.
I love the way you captured this one... the body angles- everything.
Lovely!
Fabuleuse illustration. L'ensemble de votre travail est superbe. Bravo !
Great composition and curving balance in this piece ... I hadn't been to your site in awhile but it's looking very good these days.
Beautiful work!
Amazing. This is one of my new favorites. You captured a lot of emotion and told the whole story in the art. I love this!
I like the composition and the palette of your illustration. Indeed Icaro's sad story is one of my favourites too.
wow, that's amazing! love it.
-Sherrin
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