The last graphics in the Poe series. it's gonna be a folding document for a school project. the female appears on the front coverpage and the guy on the back. everything including the portrait i did is meant to be a like a collaboration of poe's styles with my styles. at least that's what i gathered from the few classes i've attended. still tried to keep true to poe's writings but changed a few things, like the girl/love as the red death, certain settings etc. to make it more of a love story. basically red+black = death+time. alot of opposite and similar elements

here's an excerpt from an analysis:

The relationship between the Red Death and time is a key to understanding the symbolic meaning of the story. The seven rooms are laid out from east to west, reminding us of the course of the sun which measures our earthly time. These rooms are lighted from without, and it is only in the seventh room where the color of the windows does not correspond with the color of the room, but instead is "a deep blood color" through which light illuminates the westernmost chamber of black, with an ebony clock on its western wall. In creating this room, Poe links the colors red and black with death and time.
"[S]carlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim" indicate the presence of the Red Death. Blood, the very substance of life, becomes the mark of death as it bursts through the pores. Death, then, is not an outside antagonist, to be feared and walled out as Prince Prospero attempts to do; but instead it is a part of each of us. Its presence is felt in our imaginations as we become aware of the control that time has over our lives. We hear the echoes of the "ebony clocks" that we carry within. Prince Prospero tries to escape death by walling it out, and by so doing, creates a prison out of his sanctuary. However, the Prince learns that no one can escape death. Death holds "illimitable dominion over all."