Who would've thought?

There will be times in our lives that unexpected things happen. When all we thought everything was doing well, unfortunately, the inevitable occurs. It may be something that will make us weak or get past it and succeed.

It was early February this year that one of my classmates from college is battling against lung cancer, stage 4. Yes! She is already in her last stage of cancer when the news came out but I never really thought of it because she appeared healthy. I was completely stupefied about how and when she was diagnosed. As a healthcare personnel and the class' vice president, I knew I had to do something about it. Consequently, I gathered all the members of my class except for her and we planned on what we can do to be of help for her financially as she was informed to undergo chemotherapy as soon as possible, aside from visiting her in the hospital.

Some of my classmates overseas sent money in and I made a You Caring account, it's like a Go Fund Me strategy where people from other countries can donate, linking her sister's Paypal account so they can directly get the cash and use it. While we were waiting for other donations, we considered doing a fundraising program by making T-shirts for sale. The proceeds will then be given to her family to support her expensive chemotherapy.

As a frustrated artist, I was requested by my dearest classmates to create a design to be printed on the shirts. I will show a step-by-step documentation on how I made it in one full day.

Since it is a battle against lung cancer, I started off by drawing the human lung structure with a pencil. As you can see, I then decorated the right lung with different flowers which for me symbolizes how beautiful life is and how lovely it is to be alive.

After filling the right lung with assorted florals, as a hand letterer, I decided to make use of positive words to uplift the fighting spirit of those people suffering from cancer like love, hope, motivate, survive, recovery and etc.

This is the final draft before I traced it.

After getting satisfied with my draft, I traced the pencil marks and detailed it using Uni Pin 0.1, 0.3 and 0.5 black pens.

This is the traced drawing after almost 10 hours of finalizing what to put in.

After looking the traced design, I realized how dull it was. Putting color to my drawings is not really my forte but I tried anyway and this was the result. It didn't actually look bad and I was okay with it.

So this was the design I made for our classmate. Unfortunately, the one assigned to print the shirts told me that we can only use the one with no colors for easy printing and lesser cost of materials.

If you guys want to help us be part of our fundraising cause, you can comment below for orders and resteem to reach other people.

Much love,
Kayenine ❤