Making Trite Un-Trite

For my trite "symbol" I chose a sunset. I feel like sunsets are commonly used in romantic movies, and books, and basically whenever I think of romance, I think of a sunset. To use this concept, and make it original, I decided to draw a candle, because candles are another, more unique in my mind, thing that represents romance. To incorporate the color in the sunset into my drawing, I used prisma colors to draw a colorful flame.
     I think that the composition of my drawing makes it look really focused, and cool! It really keeps your attention drawn to the flame. Since there isn't very much going on in the background, so it almost forces your eye to pay attention to all the little details. I think another artistic choice that made my art successful was that I tied in the colors to outside of the flame(the extra glow the flame had) to make those pieces of the artwork really go together. At first, I started out with just making the glow around the flame yellow, because that's the way it looked in my reference picture, but adding the other colors really made it my own, and helped everything in the piece tie together nicely.

This is the prep work I did, before starting on my final piece

This is the final!!!!