Glory of Icarus

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I created this for the Icarus Contest elandria.deviantart.com/journa…? by and

The theme was the myth of Icarus which goes something like this:
Son of Daedalus who dared to fly too near the sun on wings of feathers and wax. Daedalus had been imprisoned by King Minos of Crete within the walls of his own invention, the Labyrinth. But the great craftsman's genius would not suffer captivity. He made two pairs of wings by adhering feathers to a wooden frame with wax. Giving one pair to his son, he cautioned him that flying too near the sun would cause the wax to melt. But Icarus became ecstatic with the ability to fly and forgot his father's warning. The feathers came loose and Icarus plunged to his death in the sea.

Even though he plunged to his death in the sea, I focused on the moment right before he started falling.
I think that for that one moment when he soared above everything and everyone, when he had conquered the sky, for that one second when he was the happiest man in the world...it was worth it!

You can see the process of creating this here----> fav.me/d4y5sx5

Stocks used:
Man: danger99stock.deviantart.com/a… by DaeStock
Sky: skybase.deviantart.com/art/Clo… by Skybase
Wings: kkako.deviantart.com/art/Stock… by kkako
Branches (for the wings frame): isostock.deviantart.com/art/De… by ISOStock
Rope: dracoart-stock.deviantart.com/… by Dracoart-Stock
Feather: fav.me/d21xxmi by gapystock


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