Two Monks Illustrate The Old Testament

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MONK #1: if I wanted to illustrate the rain of fire that destroyed Sodom

what should I use for my model

visually I mean

MONK #2: can can dancers

red legs, blue skirts

it’s all the same

MONK #1: oh thanks

and people who have died horribly of burns look –

MONK #2: normal skin but asleep

MONK #1: right, right

MONK #1: how many animals are there in the world, again

MONK #2: eleven

plus four fish

but they’re all trapped, so

MONK #2: remember, the Tower of Babel is a sign of man’s deadly hubris and overweening pride

they tried to reach Heaven itself

so don’t hold back

make it at least one and one half stories high

MONK #1: gotcha

MONK #2: same deal with Jacob’s Ladder

remember: this stretched all the way up to God’s throne

so at least two people could stand comfortably on it at the same time

God is roughly as high up as a medium tree, just for future height referencing

MONK #1: I’m having the toughest time finishing this illustration of Jacob wrestling with the angel for some reason

I never really wrestled as a kid

what does it look like

MONK #2: confused hugging

MONK #1: really?

MONK #2: yeah you’re hugging but you look sort of concerned about it

most concerned face wins, usually

MONK #1: stoning someone must be awfully violent

how would I draw that?

MONK #2: its actually VERY low key

you just drop soft bread rolls around their head until they go away, from dying

MONK #1: oh huh

i never would have guessed that

MONK #2: yeah its sort of counterintuitive

MONK #1: can a man fit through a tower

or like a gate

from a castle

MONK #2: no

that’s why whenever you build a castle you stand in the middle and build around you and then you can’t ever leave

castles are actually super impractical

MONK #1: so war must be pretty hard then huh

MONK #2: not really if you know your strategy

just lean over a wall and pick everyone’s heads up

thats basically it

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