This piece is called The Farmer and the Fox. It’s based on the fable by Aesop.

The story goes like this: A farmer decides to tie an oil-soaked rope around the tail of a fox as revenge for it breaking into his chicken coop. He lights it on fire, and the fox runs into his fields, lighting them on fire.

The farmer gets no harvest that year.

This story could have many morals, but the one I’m interested in is the idea of pointless revenge and ruthlessness. When one becomes self-righteous in their vindictiveness, things can often turn around to devastating effect. So don’t be a dick.

And I think that’s a lesson a LOT of us—especially in the US on the right—have forgotten. It has been said that “the cruelty is the point”, and I believe that’s true. I just hope karma strikes back soon.

This is available as a greeting card here: https://goimagine.com/the-farmer-and-the-fox-single-illustrated-greeting-card-5x7-with-envelope/

I don’t use any sort of generative image assistance to help me make these. They’re all done slowly in Procreate, and printed, packaged, and posted from my own home. I don’t do print-on-demand drop shipping.

Here’s the speedpaint: https://makertube.net/w/j7SZxpYAikRgMCWHyeVhMc

You can watch the livestream recordings of its creation here:
Pt 1— https://makertube.net/w/uHfmYYM3845ZAMYhGxr3T7
Pt 2— https://makertube.net/w/sjTUJDBhgLdj6C4ahVUfFp
Pt 3— https://makertube.net/w/5SigxX96osnhDyjoSFjZBt


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The Wolf and the Lamb.

An interesting fable about how tyranny will make up any justifications to do what they want. I think that’s important to remember nowadays…

The wolf in this piece was one I’d made for another piece, and thanks to the magic of digital art, I was able to import it into this canvas, tweak it around, and come up with something I was very happy with it. My art idol, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, and her peers in the Glasgow Four often used recurring motifs in their work and strongly similar figures from one piece to another.

This piece is a greeting card, and can be found here: https://goimagine.com/the-wolf-and-the-lamb-single-illustrated-greeting-card-5x7-with-envelope/

I do all my work in Procreate without the “assistance” of any sort of generative image making tools. It’s all #Humanmade, and here’s the speedpaint: https://makertube.net/w/sZrQ9Yj4w8hu1YtFkyjGLc



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