This is my final piece, a triptych illustration based on Egyptian after-death. On the first panel I was going for a contemporary Egyptian hieroglyphic style. On development the women bringing gifts reminded me of my mate Aubrey Beardsley's style hence the decision to do the pyramids the way I did. I feel this also lent itself to the spacey feel of the piece as a whole. The central panel is gearing more towards the style of Enric Sio/ Lichtenstein. I like the idea of an Art Nuevo and Pop Art fusion given their fundamental similarities, minimalism, intricacy and repetitive nature. Where I feel they differ is Art Nuevo is more elegant in its execution and Pop Art is more sexy. Given as I felt this panel to be the weakest, I tried to tart it up with more intense detail, parallel lines and splats though unfortunately this resulted in the panel being more disjointed (in terms of style) from the other two. On the third panel it was important for me to capture her emotion. I wanted her to be happy and in love. For the Pharaoh, given as they used to dress as snakes, I went for an David Icke interdimensional lizard look. Though the Pharaoh is secondary. I like how the image worked out despite nearly destroying it after accidently colouring over one of the stars though this hasn't effected the overall composition, just that region. Symbolism. The gifts the women are bringing are Horus who is associated with protection and strength and Anubis who was the original God of the Underworld before being replaced by Osiris. The leopard style bed is Seshat, the Goddess of mathematics, astrology, astronomy and wisdom. The Scarab is symbolic of time passing and renewal and the jewel on her head appears as the Osiris star in Orion's belt on the third panel. The constellation is there but is lost in the stars. I'd never used fine liner since school and this was my first experience of applying ink with a brush. I was gutted that the black didn't turn out as one consistent black tone though it has since occurred to me that I can scan the images and fix them on Photoshop so that the black is all one tone. They were also mounted when I handed it in which causes the boarders to interfere with the intended composition. As far as inspirations are concerned. Well I love how Yoshiaki Kawajiri incorporates a lot of swirly monochrome definition in a characters hair! In my own art I pretty much use this technique in everything I do except not just with hair. The more I've incorporated it over the years the more it has come to remind me of pop artist such as Lichtenstein. Theres the obvious one. grew up with this on my wall and was fascinated by it. This is more what I mean by the monochrome curves. I absolutely love this dudes art. My other inspiration was Aubrey Beardsley. I'm not sure how well he's appreciated in the art word? Sure hes famous! But liked? Well anyhew he's one of my favourite.. maybe my favourite.. hard to call. It's moody, even satanic I'd say. His art was inspired by Japanese wood cuts, and in turn inspired Japanese artists with his dark erotica. He's a master of composition! His line is so elegant and precise bearing in mind this is ink straight onto paper, there's no room for error so one mistake and the whole thing is fucked. When he illustrated for Vanity Fair his work had to be examined by a board to make sure he hadn't hidden any penis's in. He knowing suffered from tuberculosis, aware he would die young he was very artistically productive! He died at the age of 25, though I believe his work will forever inspire the art word. He further more inspired another one of my favourite artist's Osamu Tezuka, who again is an absolute mater of the line. Opened my eyes as to how to creative construct an image, crossing flows etc.