Tag: Mark Jansen

Shortly after Simone’s birthday portrait I decided to give digital drawing another chance – and created an illustration for Mark Jansen’s “United Metal Minds” project.  When I started drawing, I didn’t have any concept for how I wanted the picture to look like. I started off by colouring the background and drawing the United Metal Minds logo in the centre. After that I continued with adding the silhouette of a woman meditating, then I drew the moon and earth in opposite corners of the picture. Last but not least, I added a sort of “mandala” frame to the image.

At first, it was rather difficult for me to come up with ideas for the illustration as I didn’t have any music to refer to and only a rather vague topic but I tried to make the best out of it.

A few explanations on the artwork itself: the logo in the center isn’t my own design, it depicts a symbol called “Metatron’s Cube” – a reference for energy, motivation and focus. The silhouette of the meditating woman is supposed to be a symbol for the mind and the ability to focus on it.
The cube symbol resembles the “Flower of Life” symbol. If you look closely at the woman’s hands you can see a DNA strand just above – as a symbol for life and its origin. I was trying to connect two things with the used symbolism – spirituality (=meditation) and science (=DNA strand) – as I think both can strongly define your view on the world. The moon and earth symbolise connection, interaction and also life. The frame, once again, is a mandala to adapt to Metraton’s Cube in the centre of the illustration.

Materials: Autodesk Sketchbook

Time: approx. 8 hours