Line Art Me

I've been wanting to take a stab at drawing some line art. It's a fairly easy process, although it can be tedious. Some tutorials have you use the pen tool, but I felt it would be truer to my artisticness (don't think that's a word but it works)...at any hand I thought it would be more artistic to free hand this. I've tried some simple more basic line art before, but nothing compared to what I'm trying now. In previous attempts I used the same sized brush. With this one I'm changing/customizing the brushes I'm using in Photoshop depending on where the line is. So here is a creation in progress which I call 'Line Art Me.'

If - Solzhenitsyn

I came across this quote by Alexander Solzhenitsyn a while back. In recent times, as I watch our government and my fellow citizens respond to and use events that strike fear, or alternately hide facts that would cause us to question the direction we are headed. I was reminded how easily our freedom's can be restricted or taken from us simply because we allow ourselves to be distracted, to take the eye off of the ball so to speak. All under the pretense of safety.
It seems we prefer to live a distracted life, not wanting to consider the reality of what is befalling us, of the direction we are heading. We would rather allow ourselves to be lulled to inactivity by the siren song of ease and comfort. Insulating ourselves. Preferring the cocoon of normalcy over reality.
And when the reality of where we are heading smacks us in the face, we will look surprised, like a deer in the headlights of a car, stating that we didn't know, because we didn't want to know. And the reality of what happens afterwards is as Solzhenitsyn said... purely and simply deserved.
And so I was motivated to create this poster using the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and the image of a dark hallway, to highlight the unknown uncertainty of where we are headed. And to present us with a reminder that as fearful as the future appears, we have the option of facing it was with tenacity and determination, trusting in God, along with a plan for how we are going to respond... or with fatalism and denial, preferring instead to let events catch us by surprise and overwhelm us.