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First I practiced sketching out my characters a few times before I drew it in gel pen. I experimented a few times for the cartoon skeleton, because I was not sure how realistic and value I wanted to make it, but then I decided I wanted it to be cartoon to make it fit the rest of the composition and give unity. I wish I had experimented with the background because the texture looks off and there is some weird spacing that throws off the shape of the room. At first the piece of paper that I drew it on was bigger, but then I cut it because there was a lot of empty space that I was not exactly sure how to fill it with. Also, I was going to incorporate food and objects having to with dieting, but I decided I wanted to keep it simple so it could be a broader meaning, and possibly apply to more than just anorexia, but also self imagery issues. My next steps could definitely be along the lines of adding more to the background. Where it is at right now is very simple and empty and I feel like there needs to be more in the composition. In some places the artwork looks unfinished and is missing something. I think I could potentially add pattern something along those lines to the background.
For this project I chose anorexia for a cause. I wanted to capture what it is like for people living with anorexia and how they see themselves. I had done research about this mental illness prior to this project so I knew that this illness was more common in young females. A lot of people that suffer from this illness are so thin that they almost look like skeletons because their bones are visible. For the subject of the drawing I drew a cartoon Skelton with the face of a girl looking into a mirror and seeing an obese figure representing what she thinks she looks like. I chose to focus on anorexia because in health class we had just done a project on mental illnesses and I studied anorexia. I wanted whatever I choose to be authentic information to be correct and i think that this is a significant problem in people today. One of the thoughts to be causes of anorexia is social norms, or desire to fit the picture society gives. I thought that this was a very important message that could be addressed through my drawing. I wanted to capture the self hate as well.
For the materials I used a gel pen for the character figures, and sketched everything out with a 4B pencil. Then for the characters I used colored pencils to shade in the figures. Then for the floor of room I colored it in dark blue because I wanted to add a little bit more color. I tried to use colored pencil to give it a rough texture, but I could not quite get it the way I would have liked it to come out. Then I added a very light shade of light pink so there would not be too much white space, and to add color and for this I used colored pencil.
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