Scholastics #3

The subject of my work is a person with cancer. The drawing was made with finepoint pen and colored pencil. I chose to create this because a lot of my family has struggled and/or passed from cancer. What our project was to create a piece to represent the mourning of death. The hardest part about this was adding color. I don't like the rainbow effect I had going. I also really dislike the arms/hands. I was going for a cartoony but also realistic drawing.

There was a meaning behind this piece is a person struggling with cancer. The area around where the splash happens is where my aunt had cancer. The hand around the mouth is supposed to represent how cancer gets ahold of us. The bandages on the head and the small amount of hair is supposed to represent the chemotherapy. The wings represent multiple things: The fact that some people turn to God, the fact that people die, and the fact that the wings show a message of courage. However... People think about art in many different ways. Anyone can take this anyway they want to.