Love Came Down

I was blessed recently in reading an old (1967) Master's thesis by Donald Heinz, "KOSMOS in John." It's a comprehensive exploration of the Greek work "kosmos," or "world." There's a ton of quotable material in the couple of hundred pages, and one of those quotes inspired the Christmas drawing below, along with the process video. I'd argue that the process video is better, because the Jars of Clay song I set it to (Love Came Down at Christmas) is really good. I used AI generated art to generate some ideas, and then did a really loose sketch from that. Originally, I was just doing a light study for fun, but after I finished the black and white version, I decided to splash some washes right over the tones, and it looked pretty good, so I ended up making a post out of it. 

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