Love Lies Bleeding

so i've been wanting to use "love lies bleeding" flowers in a piece since "asphodel", but since it wouldn't work as well compositionally, i decided to omit it and build another piece around it :3

unfortunately this turned out a bit more depressing than intended, but i still love it "love lies bleeding" flowers represent hopelessness...which was strangely fitting with how depressing my last few days had been. i guess that's what got me to finish this a bit before i had intended :3

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about 35 hours, HB mechanical pencil, graphite powder, moleskine sketchbook
art (c) meeeee