It will also be used for the cover of a little recording i'm working on for myself. Just a little project i'm working on with a friend, where I am responsible for all instrumentation (writing and recording) and he is responsible for all the vocals (*). But anyway...
I was inspired to illustrate this topic after reading Richard Dawkin's 'The God Delusion'. I'd tell you what it's about, but the book's title speaks for itself. Parts of the book are focused on delusion in a more vague sense, but overall, about the delusion of God, and why it is dangerous. This image is not, however, about 'The God Delusion'. Only about 'delusion' in general.
Here's the finished image:
But it took a lot of changes to get here. Here's the painting that went to the scanner, with the original drawing. I did SO much drawing and clone stamping after this point. Who says you can't polish a turd?
So from this point I worked digitally to fill in the ribbon section on the bottom amongst other things and I arrived at this:
I wasn't satisfied so I incorporated an old drawing with a flatter perspective of the volutes (which are those swirly things that they put on Ionic and Corinthian columns) to fix the balance problems the older volutes. Here's the older drawing I mentioned:
And the final drawing here:
