I drew this years ago. I had been helping a female co-worker with her physically abusive husband. This is not her, just an impression of her emotions every time I went with to a potentially violent (I started going with her after he had publicly beaten her–I did fight with him twice, but always stopped short of what this bully truly deserved because of his three confused & crying daughters), court-ordered, week-end child-exchange in the Orem Wal-Mart’s parking lot under their cameras.
This picture was drawn with Micron Pens and digitalized in PhotoShop Elements (no editing or alterations).
The Ogre works as a call-center phone-monkey. He would eventually love to work as a commercial illustrator or self-sufficient webcomic. The Ogre loves many things and hates few, however he has issues with almost everything (mostly because he has issues--he's started having acne around and on his nose and sitting place again). The Ogre is forty-somethin' flippy years old for goodness sakes and is loosing his mind.
wow. poignant. packed full of all the emotions one would expect. this is amazing. love the way it is intentionally unfinished.
Thank you Mary. I wanted the white space to do as much of the talking as possible.
Wow! Incredible! Eyes are so difficult, especially to capture emotion – and you did so.
Thank you, Michelle. Eyes are hard. Avoiding/understanding the cliche in “eye” illustration is one of the things I struggle with in my drawings. As always, thanks for stopping by.
would be nice for a t-shirt …put a writing under it…stop abuse
Thank you! I’ll look into it.
Reblogged this on Catholic Musings and commented:
The shirt idea would catch on Internationally. Mine was rearranged. Rhinoplasty and PTSD. I’m using my secondary account to protect my anonymity on my primary wordpress account.
Thank you very much. I don’t even know where to start on t-shirt sales. Thanks for the reblog, I appreciate it!
This one is pure emotion… The eyes themselves elicit both empathy for the person (and many others like her), and a chilling reminder of how inhuman we are capable of being towards our fellow human beings.
Great work, Mr Guile. Your sketches have pretty much become an integral part of my week (and weekend).
Thank you!!!! I appreciate it!
The inhumanity we have for each other is fathomless and one of the great enigmas we have to face as an evolving society. I think we are failing at any understanding and for some reason continue to over-simplify the causes.
I am glad you enjoy my posts. Compliments are hard for me, but like all artists I love getting them. Thank you for stopping by (ps. I hope to see a new drawing from you soon as well!)
I am sorry about the dearth in posts, but my life has entered a very hectic phase as of now. I’m looking to writing up and defending my Masters’ thesis in a month, which has pretty much tied me to my computer. But I hope to draw inspiration from how dedicated you are to your blog… which should tempt me to doing more drawing more often.
Jeeze, your masters. Sorry to pressure you. Your masters is very important. Good luck with it!
This is a really haunting image… Beautifully drawn and incredibly sad.
Thank you very much, Liz. Emotions are hard for me to draw. I’m glad you liked it.
good for you. this won’t stop until men stand up to the bullies they see around them.
I agree, this is an issue men ought to be interested in curing, but even when men have tried to organize to deal with problems like this they’ve been attack by politicians and women’s groups (the million man march is a great example).
You really captured the essence.
Thanks Ron, I appreciate it.
Terrible abuse is not solely physical. Accentuating the physical, is itself a form of significant abuse, especially if it minimizes and marginalizes other, not physical abuse.
I’ve seen way too much injustice to be swayed alot by one type of abuse. Abuse is spread out according to circumstances.
Not gonna argue over it. That is abuse as well. It all is profoundly injust every
face of abuse.
it’s simple… but it has captured the emotions pretty quickly.:)
Thank you very much, it’s very challenging to get that kind of emotion across and I’m glad you felt I did.
you’re welcome.
the white space also gives out silence that makes me focus on the face a lot. 