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I'm thinking of a project called China Portraits. So I guess this will be the first of the series (which may take years). She is a construction worker. She is pushing a wheelborrow to transport stone materials (or maybe earth?). The workers don't like when foreigners come in because they feel they are being watched by the bosses or clients. I don't intimidate them being an Asian as well, but my Canadian colleague is very prominent.

I had always admired the women in China who do work like this. Bus drivers, taxi drivers, construction workers. I even saw a woman jackhammering a concrete road. Here you'll do everything to survive. In my country, those jobs will be reserved for males. But what I am taken by her expression is that resolution to work hard and also her focus to do her job. Whatever happens, she wants to be seen doing her job well.

I still think it's a little pale and messy. I might go retouch this up when I have more time

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Ok, no more retouching. I just sent this to SIYL for a project they have on violence against women (cause I no longer have time to make another one ). I'll just have to work for another set for my China Portraits AND that saves my drawing for some more whoopdidoos that I was planning on it. Maybe it's meant to be the way it is

Description
I'm thinking of a project called China Portraits. So I guess this will be the first of the series (which may take years). She is a construction worker. She is pushing a wheelborrow to transport stone materials (or maybe earth?). The workers don't like when foreigners come in because they feel they are being watched by the bosses or clients. I don't intimidate them being an Asian as well, but my Canadian colleague is very prominent.

I had always admired the women in China who do work like this. Bus drivers, taxi drivers, construction workers. I even saw a woman jackhammering a concrete road. Here you'll do everything to survive. In my country, those jobs will be reserved for males. But what I am taken by her expression is that resolution to work hard and also her focus to do her job. Whatever happens, she wants to be seen doing her job well.

I still think it's a little pale and messy. I might go retouch this up when I have more time

***

Ok, no more retouching. I just sent this to SIYL for a project they have on violence against women (cause I no longer have time to make another one ). I'll just have to work for another set for my China Portraits AND that saves my drawing for some more whoopdidoos that I was planning on it. Maybe it's meant to be the way it is