Not Everything Is How it Seems to Be

My piece of art is called "Not Everything is How it Seems to Be". My artwork is a dragon with some scenery behind it and it is telling a story about how a lot of people have been feeling lately.The dragon is most important to me because it’s telling a story. The story is that my dragon is colorful and people think it’s happy but the black the deepest color is coming through but it tries to hide by being beautiful in the middle.

I used colored pencils and a regular pencil, I made some spots darker and some spots lighter to make details on how my dragon is feeling.My artwork is inspired by what a lot of people have been feeling these past two years, and I tried to surround it around mental health. My dragon shows that although it tries to hide that it’s hurting with colors we can all see the dark colors coming through. It’s kinda like what a lot of people have been feeling including me, I lost a lot last year and I tried to show everyone that I was okay but I wasn’t. I learned that I can do what I want to do, and I feel as though I made this artwork how I wanted too. I really like to draw dragons so I think that I will do more of these in the future.