Final

This is what I have so far.  I decided to make the girl small to emphasize the weight of everything else and pressure pressing down.  I also wanted it to emphasize the "going out into the great big world" idea.  I'm keeping the color red consistent throughout to represent her spirit and creativity.  It gets darker and faded the more she grows.  For the writing on the wall, I made it surround her to give an enclosed, trapped feeling.  The door represents an escape, or a light at the end of the tunnel, but the books and things are sort of blocking her from getting to it. 

I still have some more stuff to do, but its getting there.

Well, my sketch isn't working out, right now.  but just to have a visual - this is (sort of) what I imagine the little girl will look like.

For the final project I want to do a piece about growing up.  Going from the carefree days of childhood, to a teenager, to an adult. 

My idea is to have a row of a girl growing up in stages through part of her life; having it end in college.  She'll be in profile in all of the stages.  It will start off with a little girl in a dress and hair clips - that cliché kind of image, then go to her a few years older.  I'm thinking she could be in a superman costume with that hands on her hips, in that superhero stance.  Next have a freshman year high school version of her, with a book bag; nervous, but her head is still high.  Then maybe a senior year high school hunched over from all of her books. 

It will keep going after that, but the point is to visually show the "heaviness" of responsibilities and adulthood, and how difficult it is to deal with.  I want to start off with her head high, exited about life, but as it goes on, she gets weighed down, till eventually I'll probably have her on the ground covered in books and bills and anything else I can think of. 

I have also thought about having an old man leaning out, staring at the girl at end covered in books and whatnot; saying "This generation is so lazy" or something.  Because I've heard older people say stuff like that, and its really unfair of them.  Its something I'd like to call attention to.  <----(EDIT) After thinking about it more, I might not do the old man at all.  I think it might draw attention to itself and take away from what needs to be focused on.

Also, I'd like to point out that this will probably look like the Evolution of humans thing, but that's not what I was going for at all.  I got the idea, when I was listening to the song "Into the Sea" by "As Cities Burn".  It talks about our "Posture start[ing] to bend" and how "Nobody's back is straight".  That got me thinking how heavy stress is, and that the burdens on our backs, really do weigh us down and break us.  I just want to make that struggle visual.

ANNNDD.....I'm working on a sketch of this, so it will make more sense.
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