Birds Of Sorrow Sketch

Here is a graphite sketch I did today, revisiting my quote for the Illustrated quotes and sayings book that my university produced. My quote was  “You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.” Chinese Proverb.

I wanted to see what ideas I could come up with if I were to do the project again, and I feel this idea has more emotion and depth to it than the original, even though it was produced much quicker. I think it is really useful to look back as well as forwards, to see how previous work could be improved.