I AM NO MAN!
Photoshop
1280 x 1683 px (pixels)
2013
Shelby Cragg is a student at Ringling College of Art and Design. She is an illustrator based in North Carolina and is a freelancer, as well as working in collaboration with a popular webcomic called Homestuck. She lives at school mostly with her cat Roxy.
" No man can defeat me... I AM NO MAN! Eowyn from Lord of the Rings slaying the Witch King. Baller."
I AM NO MAN! is a fanart piece of the popular book and movie trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. Specifically this piece is a play on a scene in the third installment of the trilogy 'The Return of the King'. Cragg is a feminist who loves to promote well written women in art, movies, and comics. Eowyn, having such a pivotal moment in the movie, and her gender playing a positive role in it touched many people, Cragg included. And so Cragg decided to draw this because who doesn't love a badass female character!
This connects to the theme of wild cats because women are much like cats. Fierce and wild and always willing to strike out at those who try to attack them. This scene with Eowyn got me so excited when I saw it, and seeing Cragg illustrate it is so moving too. It is so much more dynamic, the perspective and the framing, as well as the text within the work all mesh together so well. Her long golden hair could be liken to that of a lion, majestic and almost overwhelming. I chose this piece in particular because I love seeing women in power and with swords. Swords are aweosme.
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