Donate Life

The assignment was to design a poster for organ and tissue donations. It had to have "organ and tissue donation" on it, somewhere, either in a sentence or just as it was. The subject of my drawing is a hand giving a heart with leaves coming out of it to an outstretched hand. I looked at different pictures of hands and sketched them out and put a heart in one of them. I used graphite pencils and prismacolors.

I used color to bring out the part of my picture that I wanted to emphasize (the heart). I used contrast in the hands because one of the hands is colored and the other is white; I wanted to bring in the inter-race theme. Originally, I started out with just one set of hands holding a heart but I thought it would look better if I had that set of hands giving out to someone else because that's what the project was promoting- organ and tissue donation.

I wanted to make the heart symbolize life so I added the leaves/vines coming out of it because I thought that would convey the meaning. I'm proudest of the hands; I think they look pretty realistic, although there are visible sketch marks. I struggled in getting the proportions of the hands right; I couldn't seem to get the size of the fingers right. To make this project better, I would make sure I erased the pencil marks to make the hand look better. I would also make the words darker so they were more legible.