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The Cremation of Sam McGee: 2

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First Storytelling + Environments project of the term, based on a Robert Service poem. My illustrations were based on the poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee.  The illustrations were made to flow together, something I feel I incorporated rather well.

The second illustration, with the smoke coming out of the cave, comes from the

line about the prospectors sleeping under the snow, which I felt I could work to be them
sleeping in a cave rather than in a tent, which would still be in the bag on the sled in the
bottom left of the illustration. To push the prospector occupation home, there is a lone
Pickax resting against the sled. I wanted the smoke to be a bit more ethereal in this
illustration, as it is here in the Poem that the titular character dies, and for that reason
I’ve made the smoke far more linear and stylized.

Check out the other illustrations in the set:
FirstThirdFourth
And the
Collective of the Four

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