#inktobertempting

Tempting. we're all presented with temptations and choices everyday. Are you going to fall subject to the alluring scent of sin or are you going to trust in Christ who is good to see you through it?

25. Tempting

Ofelia should know better than to eat grapes in the den of the Pale Man.

My favorite movie was created by Guillermo del Toro.

It's original name is El laberinto del fauno, but I know it as Pan's Labyrinth.

It's a war movie filled with lore and fantasy set in Spain 1944.

The best way to watch it is with the original audio and subtitels. Though I do advice those who wish to see it to be 16 years old and up, since some parts are graphic and rough.

A beautiful quote:

~Tempting

Inktober Day 25 — Tempting

I know, I’m falling behind, but considering it’s at the end of the month, I’d say I held out for quite a while for my first year doing this. I’ll try to catch up once I have the time, I just got a new job which is why I’ve been so busy and stressed recently. Only three days in and I’m already coming home exhausted.

Anyway, enough about real life, let’s talk about art! My first thought for the “Tempting” prompt was actually sirens,”. Like the kind that lives in water and would lure men towards them jus to drown and/or eat them, but I was having trouble figuring out a scene for that, so I put that idea on hold. My second thought was an apple like the garden of Eden, but while I had ideas for that, I couldn’t execute them as well as I wanted to (I also was working on this late last night, so I wasn’t in the right head space). In the end I went back to the siren idea, but with a monstrous twist! You know those angler gosh that have the lure on their heads? What if that, but with their tongues, and a lure that looked like a pretty woman! I remembered seeing videos online of artists making sculptures with similar ideas (one of them might’ve been a doll customizing video actually) so they definitely were a great inspiration for this picture.