The Pursuit of Happyness

So this week I decided to do something a bit different. Over these past few week with school stress family stress and world stress (me realizing how much bad is in the world right now) I kind of go to a place where I had no hope. Not just for myself but also that our society can make a change. I do not want to go on another tangent (for that you can check out my RCL blog) but it just made me really sad to think that some people live the way they do. I am not just talking about poverty or mayhem overseas but even here in the US. So that is when I decided to draw this. 

Not to be all “it gets better” on you guys but I wanted to draw something that represents that it really does. It may be hard and it will take a lot of work but things really can get better as long as we are willing to put in the work.

To focus a little more on the picture I chose to make the majority of the picture that dark black/gray color to represent the fact that you may be in this state for a while, it is hard to get out of and without hope you can be sucked in deeper and deeper. So moving into the more happy and bright colors takes up more of the page than the yellow or “happiness” that is supposed to be represented by this. I chose to do that because once again, even though things are getting better, the journey is definitely not over. It takes determination and hard work to get to where your happiness is and that is what I was trying to represent. Then finally you reach your happy place and everything is all well.

I chose to do this today because it is such a good reminder to keep you taking the next step forward because to want to get to that happy place. Also it reminds that yes you might be going the right direction, but all the things you are trying to change is right behind you and it can be so easy to fall back into that place but you cannot reach your happiness if you keep falling back.