Rising

    I used charcoal and fineliner to create this sketch. I also used strips of ripped newspaper that look like rays of sunlight due to their composition on the page. This sketch was of a sculpture of burnt tree logs, charcoal seemed fittings to use as you get similar markings if you scraped burnt wood/ash across the page. I let the charcoal be quite messy and not in the lines as smoke is uncontrollable. I also didn't fill every stump as i liked the empty lines among the markings.
    When first seeing the sculpture i thought about the idea of someone burning their dreams away to focus on reality or have no choice as thy need to survive and cant fulfill their dreams, therefore being left with ruins of what it use to be filled with. However, on the page it looks like the stumps are rising up like different levels of ambitions as someone tries their best to achieve their dreams. Additionally it reminds me of the scene from Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince when Dumbledore took Harry to that cave with the crystals and potion of despair. It made me rethink the image and see the stumps as depression seeping in and creating a sold, rough wall.
   To improve this i would zoom in on the stumps so its easier to see them in detail and make them look more threatening and overtaking. By doing them larger and can think about the composition more and focus on the shapes of the stumps. Maybe even do the charcoal in more drastic lines that run down the page as if they were jagged rock icebergs that go down the cliff edges. It would show the unexpectedness of how depression creeps up on people and overtakes their mind.