{"id":519,"date":"2021-05-03T18:21:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T18:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenthecaterpillar.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2021-05-03T18:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T18:21:31","slug":"glen-discovers-that-being-wished-into-a-cornfield-isnt-as-bad-as-it-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/2021\/05\/03\/glen-discovers-that-being-wished-into-a-cornfield-isnt-as-bad-as-it-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Discovers that being Wished into a Cornfield isn’t as Bad as it Sounds…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I decided to do another homage to one of my all time favorites – the original Twilight Zone and it’s insanely iconic It’s a Good Life episode where one little boy gets to wish people away for not thinking happy thoughts. Where do they go? The cornfields! I know the sting of this no longer reaches most people because most people no longer have first hand experiences with cornfields but here’s why that’s so scary- because they’re extremely disorienting. It’s just rows and rows of corn with no way out. It’s a terrifying thought, probably first implemented in old German fairy tales where magic umbrellas would fly bad little boys and girls away to the proverbial cornfield. (Doesn’t that put a whole new light on Mary Poppins!) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still – in this classic horror scenario Glen always manages to find a way to make it adorable. And I couldn’t be more proud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Making of Glen <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I was actually lacking in inspiration this week when this idea popped into my head yesterday. I had spent all day fighting with technology on a different matter so by the time I was ready to sit down and illustrate it I was already on the punchy side which is not a great place to start with such a complex illustration. I had to look up cornstalks in an attempt to draw them. I drew one and copied it many times over to make a field and I applied the same process to the pile of corn which I moved the corn into different angles in order to make them look like a more convincing pile. I think it came out well! And I am proud of myself for once again pushing the boundaries of what I could do – going so far as to find an appropriate brush stroke for the top of the corn stalks to make them look loaded with pollen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially I drew the image in color. I thought turning it into a black and white image would be as simple as applying a filter like you do with photos. HAHAHAHA. No, when I looked up how to do this in Clip Studio Paint I got a bunch of grotesquely long multi-step tutorials which I looked at with glassy eyes before cheating. I totally uploaded the illustration to LunaPic (dot com) and applied the black and white filter. Took all of two steps and 15 seconds from upload to black and white. I regret nothing (fully realizing that if I were to be professional about this I’d totally learn the correct way which probably allows me to do this without compressing the image. Whatever, I’m not making this into a billboard so it doesn’t matter.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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