The Allegory of the Cave from Plato’s The Repbulic is an ancient masterpiece often used to put college students to sleep in their desks. Exactly the opposite of Plato’s intentions. Shown here is my visual interpretation of the classic story told in 5 short panels.
This is the sort of work that I enjoy creating outside of my professional ventures and thought it might be nice to share a small piece of it here, with you. What do you think?
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My name is James Kurtz III; I am a graphic designer for hire based in Northeast Ohio. Welcome to my website. I invite you to take a look at some work examples in my 
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Thanks for sharing some of your personal work. I can’t say I know the story, but have read the Wikipedia summary and think you have rounded it up well. The illustration is lovely, how long does it take you to draw something like this?
Thanks Lucinda. It took me a little over 100 hours to complete these 5 panels. That includes reading the story and plotting it out, sketching everything, final pencils, bringing it into the computer for color and fine tuning, as well as printing and mounting the giclee. I probably needed another 100 to get it to the point where I originally envisioned it, but that’s a whole different story. :)
Cool, 100 hours sounds good considering that includes plotting it out and sketching. I know what you mean fine tuning, it’s a process that can go on forever unless you draw a line underneath it!
It sure can drag on! You have to know when to say enough is enough. It helps that for this one I had a gallery opening as a deadline. Otherwise I probably would have never even gotten around to it. Ha!