Journey to Wisdom - Portrait version

A portrait version of "Journey to Wisdom" The road junction were removed to make the layout strictly up towards life, and down towards death.

Greed

What a man would do to cling on to his treasures, but only to lose his life. Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Drunkard

The idea of this illustration is that the man was so drunk, he could not distinguished between a public telephone booth and an elevator. The classy couple were inspired by Fox Moulder and Dana Scully, homage to the X-Files. :D Below is the preliminary skecth.

Journey to Wisdom - Landscape version

This is a landscape version based on the preliminary sketch. The author who asked me to draw this wanted the wisdom path to be on the right and the road to folly going down to the left. In Chinese culture, right is better than left. I made the cave leading down to "death" looked like a face of an animal to represent greater danger that sometimes was not as obvious in life until it was too late.

Journey to Wisdom - preliminary sketch

Based on the book of Proverbs about choosing one's path carefully. The road to folly often looks better at the beginning but in the end it leads to death. Path to wisdom require works and discipline, but at the end the reward is eternal.