Penner Dreadful

For the first sketch, in my mind, I see a pair of friends talking in a park. It's a sunny day, everything gives good vibes and happy feels. At the top it will say: Let's talk about it . I feel that I should also add something either underneath these words or at the bottom along the lines of: mental health affects everyone . Maybe: mental health shouldn't be in the dark.  Something connecting the main line to mental health. The second sketch is much simpler and I feel that I am leaning towards this because of that. In this you see the sufferer at the bottom left corner crouched, maybe crying or with their head in their hands. The upper right corner has a doorway filled with light spilling out and a person holding their hand out to help. I think I will make this person more of a shadow-type figure, no facial details, more amorphous. From this corner I will have a grey background that meets the black of the sufferer, they will fade and mix in the middle where

This isn’t a highly political issue. For so long Hollywood has been this shining star where dreams come true, but there are so many horrors in Los Angeles, in the acting circles. It seems that, more often than not, people who go out to the west coast lose something of themselves whether they become famous or not. Many who do become famous end up losing their lives by accidental overdoses or planned suicides. It appears to me that death seems to be a common theme for those searching for fame, and even those who achieve it. Working in Hollywood, especially in front of the camera, does not heal the wounds and the never-ending pressure to be perfect, to work so much, to pull out so much emotion and eventually all of this gets the best of these people, resulting in some very bad things. I decided to take the iconic Hollywood sign and have it looming over headstones (the photo is actually from one of the Los Angeles cemeteries – I don’t know which one because I couldn’t open the art

 Sketch number one is about the abuse and demands that women are given and feel to be beautiful and fit a mold. This would be around Marilyn Monroe's iconic dress/grate photo and would include two others of her. The one on the far right is a candid where she is looking away from everyone around her and the one on the bottom left is another candid from a set where she is taking a break lying next to a dog (which I would remove). This second sketch would be about mental illness and the affects of the illness itself and how others treat it and it's sufferers. A man yelling could represent abuse causing the issues or someone fighting against the reality of depression, anxiety, etc., or could be someone's inner self yelling at themself. There's a (terribly drawn) demon to represent inner demons. There is someone shushing and someone walking away. The person on the bottom in the middle is the sufferer. The person on the bottom left is ignoring the sufferer. This f