We Cannot Direct the Wind, but We Can Adjust the Sails

Final Illustration

Detail Shot of Full Illustration Size #2

Detail Shot of Full Illustration Size #1

Research: involves references and wordplay with the fortune cookie given to me.

Preliminaries sketches and the final sketch before painting

We Cannot Direct the Wind, but We Can Adjust the Sails

Illustration I made at SCAD. The theme was to create a narrative or conceptual illustration based on a fortune/fortune cookie. My fortune was “We cannot control the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

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