Drawing people is well beyond my skill set, so I decided to take the same emotion, look at some of the base elements that captured that emotion in the original photograph, and try to depict them in a pure form. So I took that feeling of protecting or doting from the original photograph and applied it to the dot and line, where the line is shielding the dot from all of the dark negative space. My biggest problem with this one was subject, as it was rather difficult to make the two objects feel separate. If we could work with tones, I probably would have opted to make the line a light grey to create this distinction, but as it is I just moved the dot around until looking at the two together felt slightly off with the hope that this would cause viewers to visually separate them.