Exercise 2 part 4: Sadness

To me sadness is a dark emotion and I also wanted to hint at tears. Three of the panels were interesting one was not successful at all and I gave up on that particular panel to concentrate on the others.   The first panel I used charcoal to show a cloud of misery and added drips of water which I smeared down the page before adding some harder dots and dashes to indicate the uncomfortable nature of the emotion. The ink and stick actually worked out better than I thought it would. I tried to show the episode of sadness from start to finish and got really busy with ink spatters and lines in the middle to show the trauma that sadness can bring. I found the marker was too accurate to express an uncontrolled emotion like sadness and I moved on to soft pastel. I cheated a little here and used white out to indicate tears. I also noticed where I wiggled the pastel on the left side of the page a pattern indicating a series of bars emerged. That gave me the idea of sadness as a prison so I went back in and reinforced the lines making them bolder and implying a view looking down on a cell.