Four hands of different colors (green, blue, purple, and yellow) extend from the four corners of the artboard, drawn in chalk. In the center, there's a small ball of pink, almost like a soul or a fire. The hands are surrounding it, maybe reaching around it or forming a circle. Underneath this scene is a message, sketched out and shaded in: Believe in the Power of Pink. I wanted to use my PSA to show different groups of women working together and being united in their womanhood. From this, I devised the idea for the power of pink, i.e. the small pink ball in the center of my PSA, as a short-hand for the combined power that women and girls carry in them. I wanted to include an aspect from my essay as well: that everyone has their own color regardless of their pink-ness. That was why I made the hands surrounding the POP different contrasting colors: to emphasize their individuality. The importance of pink was represented by my changing the color of the word in the tagline. I wanted it to pop out and be the first word that someone saw if they were walking by a poster version of my PSA.
Everything drawn for my PSA was done freehand (admittedly in Adobe Illustrator), sometimes using a reference image (like for the hands). I was really excited to draw something freehand for the first time, since for most of my previous Illustrator projects I had traced royalty-free graphics from the Internet and then combined them in new ways. I was a bit nervous about drawing hands, as I had heard that they were super difficult to draw. Don't get me wrong, they still definitely were, but I was so proud of my freehanded (heh) hand when I finally completed it! It felt way cooler to say that I had drawn something on my own, without tracing or copy-pasting an image. That being said, I still did use a reference image, but I hope to work my way up to drawing things completely on my own, from my own imagination.
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