I wonder if you would do something for me? Well with me really.
I thought today I would share one of my pen and ink drawings with you and ask you to study it for a few minutes and then let me know what you think. To take the role of an art critic for a moment or two if you would.
All you have to do is to take a good look at it for a few minutes, if you will, and ask yourself some questions…
Do you like it? Do you find it appealing? Do you like the over all presentation? What do you like least about it?
Consider it in its entirety. Consider each aspect of it. Consider its content. Consider its balance. Ask where your eye is naturally drawn on it. Consider the three main characters if you will – the unicorn, the figure behind the unicorn, the moon. Which of the three do you like most? Which do you connect with, if indeed you connect with any of them?
What is the unicorn saying to you? What is the figure behind saying to you? What is the inclusion of the moonlight saying to you? What is the whole picture saying to you?
If you were to give the picture a name or to describe it what name would you give it? How would you describe it?
Perhaps you would even be kind enough to comment below and to let me know your answers to the questions above. I really would be grateful and yes there really is a point to all of this.
So that no-one’s answers are influenced by the comments/answers submitted by others, I am not going to publish any comments submitted until a little later.
Additionally, if you want to comment but don’t want others to know they are your answers, just say so in your comments and I will make a note of that and will copy and publish your comments under my name but won’t identify who actually made them.
I look forward to your comments and I really do appreciate your doing this 
Well, I did click on this post as one of my first reading choices of the day because I saw the unicorn picture. That probably says something.
I’ll just share a few of my immediate impressions of the drawing. After clicking the post and examining the drawing more closely, my eye immediately went to the unicorn’s eye. Unicorns are typically depicted as joyful creatures, but this unicorn seems melancholy. I can’t quite tell what that is crossing daggers with the unicorn’s horn. Is it a skull? A rag with holes? I immediately thought it was a skull, but the shape isn’t right. I also feel like it could be a noose that’s ready to be placed on the unicorn. It seems that my imagination is rather morbid.
The horn and the string attached to the skull or whatever it is seem to be crossing paths in direct combat. The horn also looks as if it might’ve just been glued to a horse rather than being a natural appendage.The decorations (not sure if that’s the right word–more like, items that designate military rank) make the unicorn seem distinguished, but it also seems as if they are muzzling (and symbolically silencing) the unicorn.
Not sure what to think about the moon. It definitely adds something, perhaps a ghostly glow. And lastly, the unicorn’s mane is especially lustrous.
I think it is a beautiful piece of art, I like the ink strokes you can see which remind me of something melting (if that makes sense).
Of the three main characters I definitely like the unicorn the best, it is the one that has the most detail and in particular I love the horn.
As a whole I find the picture to be quite “dark” and I find it more intriguing then pleasant to look at. The figure in the background reminds me of the grim reaper which I do not feel I connect with. The moon gives light in the dark of night and I like to believe that as a Christian I am a vessel of light in the darkness of life, so I do feel a connection with it.
As for the unicorn it is a mythical creature that is a symbol of purity and grace, this last part I don’t really feel a connection with but the unreal aspect of a mythical creature is something I do feel a connection with.
There have been times when I have had a difficult time separating fact from fiction…real from unreal.
The unicorn appears sad to me and I believe it is saying to me “farewell”, as if the unicorn is going somewhere it knows it has to but also knows that it will not meet a good end.
I suppose the name I would give it is “Death of a Myth” or something like that.
The tassels on the unicorn remind me of carousels I have been on when I was younger, where the horses and sometimes unicorns wore decorative bridles, which somehow elevates the sadness in the overall picture.
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hey Dad,
I see a unicorn in trouble and the look in the unicorns eyes have fear in them. The moons full and seems when it is full , people act strange. I see a protector behind the unicorn.
It is gorgeous and majestic. But there is something dark, not sinister, but sad in the mythical creature’s eyes. Mythical creature, a symbolism of what some of us kind of feel we are. A contradiction of logic entirely. How do we exist?
That’s what I see.
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