Home is where our hearts belong, our culture, our ancestors, and traditions, where you feel safe and what makes us what we are and will be. I used oil pastel using my county’s flag colours, giving it extra life with vibrant colours. I scratched into the oil pastel and blended the colour into the paper.   

In this drawing, I aimed to convey a negative and distorted perception of home. For me, the definition of home is somewhere where you feel safe and comfortable to express yourself, as well as a place where you feel yourself. However, this artwork represents a lack of these things. To achieve this unhinged and distorted feeling, I drew an unrealistic dead appearing figure in a distorted bathroom setting with black drips falling down the walls, flowing onto the floor and blending in with the figure. The figure’s face is scribbled out to represent a lack of identity and security in oneself.

My drawing depicts the profound impact of illness and death on a family, using a ghost as a symbol for a mother who died of the plague, leaving her family behind. Through the use of various pencils and tonal contrast, I explore the divergence between light and darkness, symbolizing life, and death, respectively. The drawing portrays the mother as the light of her family's life, and her absence has left a void that permeates their home. Through this piece, I hope to evoke the powerful emotions that arise from grief and loss, and to explore the ways in which death can fundamentally transform the spaces we inhabit. 

Through this piece I aim to communicate how the concept of Home is complex, multidimensional, and unique to each person. I used three old maps of Victoria to create the base collage. I also used various pens in different thicknesses to trace roads, draw abstract lines which connect the map pieces, and shade areas of map which represent significant parts of Home. The opaque black areas represent parts of Home which have been lost. To me, Home is too complex and intrinsic to our sense of self to be represented by objective and quantifiable subject matter, this is why I created an abstract piece. 

In this series of drawings, I wanted to communicate the impression of a dark and scary journey but the comfort and relief of being in a place like home. I wanted my drawing to create a story and portray contrasting feelings from bleak and cold to the warmth and safety of a home. To do this I used charcoal and erasers to create depth and contrast. I also used soft pastel colours for the final two artworks to emphasize feelings of serenity. For the final artwork, I used a blending tool to make all the lines look fuzzy which makes it look soft and not sharp and rigid like the other artworks. For the charcoal drawings used a combination of hard and soft charcoal to build up layers but also get strong dark areas.

In this digital poster drawing my aim was to convey the feeling of contentment, belonging, and nostalgia in a typical night-time forest, to show that the subject of the painting is happy being in a whimsical and strange setting. I wanted to create an environment that makes the viewer feel like the small child in the picture is happy to be in such a big place, whilst being considerably smaller. Because of this, I had to be careful not to make the setting overwhelming, instead making it calmer by incorporating tranquil elements, such as water colour textures and darker tones in the background. Stars fading gradually into the eyes of creatures further down in the forest, which were added to evoke a feeling of mystery.