In my personal opinion, when I was in an abusive relationship I had this overpowering feeling of drowning and claustrophobia so I decided to portray this into some pieces.

I did 5 min sketches of some drowning figures/hands using a black biro. It is really out of my comfort zone to sketch and draw hands as I feel like that is where my skills are lacking so this was really pushing myself.

I found this reference photograph on pinterest of a female ‘falling’ which I thought I could intepret into a digital illustration of drowning.

Here is my sketch I created that would be the base of m drowning pieces.

I filled the base piece with black, and made the background a dark shade of blue, I then added lighter blue colours surrounding her and coming from above, which creates the illusion that she has just fallen into deep dark water. The blue  in this feels very peaceful uet at the same time extremely isolating.

I also altered the colours and created a red version, which I don’t enjoy as much, I feel like it doesn’t portray as many emotions as the first version. It feels more deathly and evil,