Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Excerpts from a Lithuanian Fairy Tale: The Queen of Serpents

It has been a wonderful experience working on this project and I'm excited to continue working on it until it is finished in it's entirety, not just excerpts.  Thank you to all of my friends, peers, teachers, and family who have supported me and helped me along the way.  My second greatest thanks goes to my wonderful, loving, awe inspiring husband, Jamin.  Surely his support and help in innumerable ways have kept me afloat and able to have made it this far.  The process of finishing will be slower because I'll be shifting my full time occupation from college to kids after graduation.  Illustration will go on, but on a slower, smaller scale.

My greatest thanks goes to my Heavenly Father, my Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost.  I know that my meager efforts with my weaknesses and short comings have been magnified far beyond anywhere I could have carried myself under my own strength.  I testify of the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. I know it has the power to heal, change, comfort, strengthen, and so much more.

My name is Shara Mills.  This is my finished BFA project, and I'm a Mormon.























10 comments:

  1. Beautiful, Shara! It's wonderful!
    What a sad story.

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  2. My favorite the "The End" to me it has so much to say that it really isn't the end. ~Mom

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  3. Absolutely beautiful! I'm so glad that I got to see the entire project finished! I just know I'll be seeing it on the shelves at Barnes and Noble someday soon.

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  4. wow shara! this is so fantastic! and heart breakingly sad!

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  5. Thanks so much everyone! It is a tragic kind of fairy tale, which was really challenging in several of the illustrations, but it was a really great experience. I'm excited to finish it!! And being out of college soon, I'll probably involve the wonderful online art community and fellow bloggers in the process. The awesome feedback I got throughout this entire project has really made it so much more than I could have made it. Now I have little voices in my head from all the people who have given me great feed back. I've just got to try and keep those voices strong so I listen to them. :) Thanks so much again!

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  6. Wow, Shara, this is amazing :-D it got better as the images went on. I love how expressive the last images are.

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  7. I agree with Roxann. Those last three are amazing. The death of the king is so powerful, dramatic, intense, beautiful. The final is so beautiful and yet hopeful, despite the sad ending of the story. Just amazing--good, good job!

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  8. Shara, this is great! You do such beautiful and fascinating work.

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  9. Awesome! I am so sad that I am not in Rexburg to see the show in person. Thanks for putting it online though :) It is awesome how much your digital style really does look like watercolor (not an easy thing to do). Great job.

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  10. Shara! These are amazing! The two with the uncles are particularly powerful. The composition on them is amazingly strong. This turned out beautifully, you should be super proud!

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