Art and soul

For this one I love the idea of how life is created between the forces of life and death. So i wanted to create a scene of where life and death combine their powers to create a new life.

I wanted the main point of focus to be the heart and the auras swarming around it. so i tried to give it a circular shape with the arms of both entities almost creating a circle. I added depth to the heart and its ventricles to make it look like its rounded and not just flat on a page, same goes for the two arms. I added shading to the skeleton hand to make it appear as if the bones are also rounded.
I used A LOT of color for this, mostly in the heart with various Purple, Pink, and red. I also used proportion in the fingers so the human hand didn't have gross sausage fingers. In the auras I had placed a dark line first and had exaggerated lines to form the swirl effect so it wasn't just strings swirling around the heart. I also added a bit of light effects to the droplets of blood going up to the skeletal hand.

I wanted to tell almost a story with this. To create life you must also give that life a death curfew. So with the powers of both life and death you can create a new being. So with Life giving the heart its ability to beat, Death infuses it own personal poison coils to wrap around the heart and slowly harm it until the point to where it can no longer beat and hold that life.

If i were to fix this i would definitely add a background color, maybe a fading color from dark to symbolize death to a white or lighter color to symbolize life. So like a Yin and Yang background without the circle.