Good vs Evil

I hope you like it.

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Description:

This was my .. well.. the embodiment of the conclusion I came to upon thinking about the subject.

Good is white, evil is black. That's just the colors I chose since .. well.. you know why. The background is neutral, gray.

In my point of view, Evil is direct. Sure, its ways may be subtle, but its purpose is certain. Hence the spikes. It knows where to strike.

Good on the other hand, does not attack. What you see is good trying to convert evil. Good embraces everything.

When Evil hits good, in my view, it corrupts it, and shatters it, like cracks on the floor. Then, it feeds off of it to grow. So the cracks serve a double purpose as "roots".

When good "hits" evil, it tries to convert evil by calling attention to the good things around it. It's the "optimist's point of view". To good, a lot of things are proof of good. Life, light, sound, taste, smell, touch...(hence the small white blobs involving the black touched by white) These are also the things it uses to grow (hence the big white blobs of good heading towards it's most dense spot)

I decided to go pure white vs black, but found the image lacking some... energy... and shape. So I turned to two other colors that are used to symbolize good and evil, the angel-blue and the devil-red.

The blue appears generally in turning white waves, and I tried to make it so it looks like.. imagine the light is in the top-right corner. The blue is the anti-shine of the good. It isn't supposed to be a shadow. It's supposed to underline the fact that good is always good, even on its dark side it shines (kind of like the thing how angels have no back).

The red appears in core black areas and "fueling" the "spores" leaving the black. It symbolizes to me, the true evil, the mad-evil. You know, the guy with the evil eyes and the hysteric laugh that just lost his humanity...

Well, this is my work. I don't intend to mix it with religion, or people even for that fact. The explanations I used were simply to exemplify something that I can't quite put into words. I went only for the concepts of good and evil.

Also, good and evil is, in my opinion, a never-ending battle, which goes on in every aspect of our existence. as one, as more than one, as a whole. Humanity, and even Nature demonstrates both sides of the battle raging fiercely.

I also put up a progress-video on youtube which you can find at: [link]

I'm sorry for this long description. I just thought I'd share it with you. If you like it, take some time to fav it, since I'm in this contest for a reason though it was great fun doing this.

I'd like to thank all my friends for their opinions on it.


Done with a Wacom Bamboo Fun medium, Photoshop CS2.
Took me about 2 weeks to finish bit by bit (really a lot of details for an amateur like me.. I work slow).