Guy Montag gradually awakened from his blissful ignorance by slowly sampling the literary contraband... It wasn't long before he found himself hounded and a candidate for booking procedures. Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 predicted a future that in many ways has already arrived.
"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn".
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| © Richard Ewing. All rights reserved. |
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I really enjoy your fictional character illustrations. you are able to capture that transforming moment so well. There is so much psychological tension in the pose. The books reference on the hat is a nice touch and the book itself is beautifully rendered with the cut pages having that cut-out effect that you are mastering. it has been awhile since I read the story and so I do not know what the "creature" on the right is. Please hit me with your knowledge.
ReplyDeleteThat creature would be one of the mechanical hounds that were released by the Firemen to hunt down and capture wayward intellectual book lovers. It was actually somewhat spider-like in appearance, and had a needle in its proboscis that injected it's capture with Procane, and rendered them inert...and sometimes dead.
DeleteGuy Montag had the tables and hounds turned on him by the end of the book.
~~man's best friend no longer...
Thanks for the compliments Alice.
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That's not how I imagined Guy Montag, but it's an amazing picture (I miss Ray Bradbury!)
ReplyDeleteThis is phenomenal! Such a great illustration, full of power. So great that you paid tribute to Bradbury. Love his work!
ReplyDeleteInteresting....and fabulous interpretation. That's not at all how I imagine Guy Montag though--I picture him much broader, and more stolid, and "slow" somehow. But a great illustration! I really like the composition, and color, and movement, and expression of it.
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