Call To Faith is the second piece I made for my high school’s chapter of the National Art Honors Society during the second year I was a member. At first, I created this with the intention of carrying on my affinity of drawing dramatic, gothic lady portraits with a black, white and red color scheme, but the meaning I ascribed to it after its conception became deeply personal and rooted in grief.

Call To Faith is a representation of turmoil of religious guilt I felt I experienced after losing a loved one. In my time grieving, part of me felt like I had lost my way and lost touch with the values of my upbringing. In shedding the dark tears of sin and looking up with fresh white eyes towards purity, the woman in the image is meant to reflect the desire to reconnect with a hope, innocence and faith once lost, whether religiously based in the end or not.

Media: Graphite pencil, Prismacolor pencils, marker