Injustice Narrative

Mediums: Color pencil and charcoal

I did my piece based on the fact of how imbalance the world’s wealth is. 15% of people are controlling 85% of the total wealth and the rest of the 85% shares the other 15%. I used the pyramid as a frame to represent the level of society; A rich couple standing up top, right underneath is a whole bunch of people who are carrying them. The minority rich owns the huge “diamond” and “gold mine” and the people down the bottom only has some coins… The background of the top is red which represent the intense power while the blue down the bottom represent how the others were living in the deep down cold. I did not use any paint; my principal is the simple, the better. I do not like the complex of all kinds of ingredients mixing down to one piece, I think that just makes it way too intense to the viewer. And I’d like to add a color to the background.

Memory Project

Medium: Color Pencil

I did this portrait for a kid named Shabir Toofan from Afghanistan. His skin tone really gave me a hard time to mix it in harmony. In fact, even until I finished I still think that I did a horrible job on his skin tone. The other thing that really bothered me was the background. I’ve been brainstormed so many things that I could draw but all of them got overthrown because I worried if he would like it. His favorite color is black, so I came up with this idea to draw the flag of his country for him