'Quest For Fire' Mammoth Hunt 1981

ARTIST: William Louis ("Bill") McDonald Senior.

COMPANY: Argonaut-GreyWolf.

CLIENT: Me. Myself at a time when I was trying to create a young family with a foreign national woman who had refugee status via the US Government from Iran. It was intended to be shown in conference rooms as a portfolio piece.

PURPOSE: Creating another graphic novel-type cover page drawing or conceptual drawing for a future film that I might be able to market later down the road.

SUBJECT: Stereotypical, Palaeolithic Neanderthal-style cavemen hunting mammoth on some Indoeuropean or Eurasian steppe (Unfinished).

INSPIRATION: The motion picture Quest for Fire (French: La Guerre du feu), which was shot and released as a 1981 prehistoric fantasy adventure film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, written by Gérard Brach and starring Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nameer El-Kadi and Rae Dawn Chong. The Canadian-French co-production is a film adaptation of the 1911 Belgian novel The Quest for Fire by J.-H. Rosny. The story is set in Paleolithic Europe (80,000 years ago), with its plot surrounding the struggle for control of fire by early humans.

YEAR: 1981.

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MEDIA: Pentel black felt tip pens, Higgins black India ink, fine quill point pen tips, and Bic ball point pens.

NOTES: I really regret this render because it was never finished. Just after seeing this movie I was tied up with the travails and tribulations of a new Iranian (Persian) girlfriend who would soon become my common law wife and who had a thoroughly wicked family with ties to the Shah of Iran's former secret police known as "Savak" who were embroiled in the dissolution of their government after the Shah was deposed in 1979 by the forces of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

The steppe mammoth is an extinct species of Elephantidae that ranged over most of northern Eurasia during the late Early and Middle Pleistocene, approximately 1.8 million-200,000 years ago. It evolved in Siberia during the Early Pleistocene from Mammuthus meridionalis.

LOCATION: This sketch was rendered at the dining room table of my family's home in the Monarch Bay Terrace community of Monarch Beach, California.