Done as a part of our Illustration course in my second year in Graphic Design. The brief was to visualise the poem 'The Tyger' by William Blake.
I attempted to visualise the dichotomy of God's love and punishment, a duality between the images of a loving father figure and malicious patriarchic tyrant, which is the essence of this poem. God created the Lamb, but he also created, and is so directly responsible for the misery of that same lamb, the Tyger that would prey upon it.
Project Guide : Tarun deep Girdher
The Final Poster
Medium : Acrylic on Orange Handmade Paper
Original Size: 28.5 * 37.5 inches
Typeface : Didot
THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience)
By William Blake
By William Blake
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Close-Ups of the Original Artwork
