I suppose I am fortunate in my life not to feel sorrowful very often. Sadness is so overwhelming. With full sorrow and grief, it seems that everything closes down to wrap around the pain of sadness and the outside world becomes faded and unreal. For this reason, while painting this character, I let the features and background all blend together.
Later, playing with the image digitally, I darkened the colors overall. The deeper tone suggested a moodier, deeper sorrow to me.
Then I realized that in some states of grief, as a sense of apathy creeps in, there might not be much color at all. So I tried one more, taking out the painful reds and muting the colors further. I liked the way this one suggests darkness all around ~ reminding me that a true state of sorrow doesn't usually have room for light and hope.
It would be interesting to sketch the landscape around each of these degrees of sadness and find out what was happening to cause such a sad feeling.
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