“Me VS Me”
By Cole Frausto
The play that inspired this drawing is Macbeth by William shakespear. This play resonates with me due to Macbeth's constant psychological battle against himself; from Macbeth just wanting to be a soldier and serve his country to an evil king who solves problems with murder. Macbeth always seemed to be his own worst enemy throughout the story by continuously making mistake after mistake to become powerful and overruling. I feel that I relate to this story because I, at times, also feel that I can be my worst enemy. I feel that when I am trying to be focused and buy into something that will benefit me, I often fall into negative distractions that can take me off course. Knowingly, the distractions are bad for me, I fight temptation and still fail causing self sabotage. The light and dark contrast in my drawing shows the contrast between Macbeth when he was a nobleman and when he became impulsive and ambitious for power. I only used colored pencils to get my message across. I also used the line concentration technique inspired by the painting “The Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh, to give an eerie feeling that relates to the known mental illness depicted in the artwork and parallels the mental illness of Macbeth.
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