Friday, November 27, 2009

The Fruit of the Spirit



Many years ago I drew a cartoon representation of the fruit of the Spirit as described in Galatians 5:22-23 and printed it on T-shirts for my friends and myself. I don't think I can find the soft copy anymore, but more recently I re-drew the passage using the 2 hamsters Robinson and Kako.

I had different ideas for this. One of those ideas was to do a calendar of the Fruit of the Spirit, and to use different scenes from Bible narratives to illustrate each aspect of the fruit. However we decided not to produce calendars in the end, and chose to do stickers instead.

The challenge was to condense each aspect of the Spirit's fruit into one single illustration. Many Bible concepts are very abstract and challenging to portray visually. How does one illustrate "holiness"? Or "goodness" and "faithfulness" for that matter? After much thought, I finally decided how to illustrate them. Some of the ideas are taken from the original illustration I did many years ago, while others are from Bible passages. Hope you enjoy them :)


P.S. I managed to find the earlier Fruit of the Spirit illustration. Apparently I did do a backup! Here it is: