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Here is my final component of Project 2: Transition. The color system I’m using is complimentary colors as a way of bringing out the vibrancy of the hues. One color represents the girl (blue-green) and the other the beast (red-orange) though both are one and the same. This is a transition piece depicting the young girl transforming into the beast. It is based off a quote about the legend of the beast (La Bête) of Gévaudan. Which is one of the older legends of werewolves and where in the beast was assumed to be a man. Here is the quote this project is based off of.

“The creature was described as a hairy beast that walked upright on two legs. Its face was sworn to be like that of Satan, and its entire body was said to be covered with dark, bristly hair. Those who were fortunate enough to escape the beast’s clutches always mentioned an “evil smell” that emanated from its foul hide. Deep claw marks on the bodies of its victims indicated that the monster sucked blood from the corpses.” - THE WEREWOLF BOOK: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SHAPE-SHIFTING BEINGS

The young girl in my version appears to be 8 years old but in reality, she is hundreds of years old eternally trapped in the body of a child. This depiction is also based on a story that my brother (Josh) and I are writing called, “La Bête” where in a father watches his daughter get devoured by a beast and he spends the rest of his life hunting it down. When he finally catches the beast it transforms into a girl that was friends with his daughter when she was a live. For the rest of the story he keeps the girl chained in his cellar. He can’t determine if he has gone insane and is torturing a child or if the beast is simply toying with his mind.

Description

Here is my final component of Project 2: Transition. The color system I’m using is complimentary colors as a way of bringing out the vibrancy of the hues. One color represents the girl (blue-green) and the other the beast (red-orange) though both are one and the same. This is a transition piece depicting the young girl transforming into the beast. It is based off a quote about the legend of the beast (La Bête) of Gévaudan. Which is one of the older legends of werewolves and where in the beast was assumed to be a man. Here is the quote this project is based off of.

“The creature was described as a hairy beast that walked upright on two legs. Its face was sworn to be like that of Satan, and its entire body was said to be covered with dark, bristly hair. Those who were fortunate enough to escape the beast’s clutches always mentioned an “evil smell” that emanated from its foul hide. Deep claw marks on the bodies of its victims indicated that the monster sucked blood from the corpses.” - THE WEREWOLF BOOK: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SHAPE-SHIFTING BEINGS

The young girl in my version appears to be 8 years old but in reality, she is hundreds of years old eternally trapped in the body of a child. This depiction is also based on a story that my brother (Josh) and I are writing called, “La Bête” where in a father watches his daughter get devoured by a beast and he spends the rest of his life hunting it down. When he finally catches the beast it transforms into a girl that was friends with his daughter when she was a live. For the rest of the story he keeps the girl chained in his cellar. He can’t determine if he has gone insane and is torturing a child or if the beast is simply toying with his mind.