Initial ideas for 'life is the art of drawing without a eraser'quote

  first thoughts- my first thoughts when looking at the quote ' life is the art of drawing, without any  eraser'  was thinking about life in general,  and how  we are always changing, growing older  and this  cannot be changed. this made me think of the idea  of how skin ages, which can be shown with wrinkles,  making you think of the idea to draw the progress of age from a baby to an elderly person showing the wrinkles being drawn on in the illustration itself. 

Another idea was to question this quote,  and show how life can be erased  by death. this idea is showing a literal meaning to the quote,  illustrating a man trying to  rub  out his past.

First idea- I developed the idea of 'rubbing out your past'  by adding  more stereotypical words that happen in a lifespan (  falling in love, break-ups, getting married, etc.) to the illustration, i thought this would represent that idea of 'life' from the quote.  I decided  to draw the illustration in the landscape format,  as I think this fits the  'lifespan' concept,  I also thought it would exaggerate fact that the figure has already tried to rub out the previous words,  but has failed as he is now at the end, the words are still  there. 

 second idea- taking the idea of lifespan from the first idea,  I decided to develop it by using ' photographs'  which would sum up these  stereotypical  lifespan words,  as I thought this would make the illustration more visually interesting,  and would also fit  the brief better-( image as communication)

 to incorporate the idea of a person trying to raise these memories,i  have added a figure  trying to reach the photograph to take it down of the line(lifeline) but failing-  showing how life is something you cannot  erase.

  first idea sticking with the idea of photographs,  i made the illusion in this idea,  that wherever person goes,a  trail of photographs(memories) will be left behind,  I decided to use photographs as a metaphor to memories as photographs are a physical thing you can see (therefore cannot be eraser) unlike memories,  and photographs are something that can capture memories. 

 second idea-  here I  started to think about  memories in general,  which made me think  about elephants-'elephants  never forget'  i thought i would use a image of a elephant to illustate the idea of never being able to forgot/ or erase memories. to incorporate the idea of drawing from the quote i illustrated the elephant drawing the word life. 

here i have developed the idea of leaving a trail behind.