Till Death do us Part

Till Death do us Part Value Project

   The concept of this idea is the main part in a wedding ceremony where the priest makes the two lovers into a married couple with the famous quote "Till Death do us Part". I took that and interpreted it into a picture of what that may look like by drawing a skull with a heart within its mouth and the two wedding rings on its lower jaw. I also incorporated what may be seen at a wedding such as flowers and doves, but in this case i used dove feathers falling. I feel as if its a meaningful promise to that special person in your life that when you decide to marry them you are basically promising you will love them until the end.

   I used pencils for this project and different forms of texture along with it. I used a smoother style of shadowing for the skull on its sides and within the eye sockets, mouth, teeth, and the intentions within the skull. For the blood like substance oozing out the mouth i tried to give it a liquid like look since blood doesn't come in smooth chunks. The flowers i gave them a more of a lined shading because i wanted to incorporated the petal like look along with shadowing it. The feathers had a similar style of shading as hair starting with light strokes and mixing dark strokes with light strokes. The heart within its mouth was given a shined smooth look to it and tried to incorporate a shadowed look since its sitting within a skull.

   I like the design of the human skull in general, its such an interesting look when compared to a normal human face. Since this is usually related to death when someone sees a skull by thinking of someone deceased or the grim reaper i decide to incorporate that into a nicer meaning. I began to think of multiple scenarios where people would be okay with saying "until I die". Marriage was one of the first ideas, and I liked the concept of someone promising to their lover that they would love them forever until they died. So I added multiple things you would see at a wedding to imply that when you look at it you could see it means a wedding without having to read the words.

  If I could change anything I would probably add other effects to the skull such as cracks or chips to show it would display that the skull has been worn down over the years. I would probably add some more texture to the flowers as well. The liquid shading I'm proud of but i feel i could do better next time. The heart probably could have been more defined to appear as a heart since people wouldn't know what it was.