I See The Light Drawing

My goal in my light to dark drawing was to emphasize the girl who was looking up at the stars and to make the starts scattered and small. I also wanted to make the sky really dark to make the trees catch other attention so they would be to hide in the background. By using the light in the drawing, I decided not to color in the girl so she would be the only white figure in the picture, and make some of the trees VERY dark so it would represent that they are not able to be seen. Also I wanted to make the areas with starts around it bright so it means that, that area is brighter than the others. This idea came into my head by looking back at my peaceful past experiences when I was a little kid and that I miss very much. These moments are the ones that I wish I could continue but now I know when you are older you forget about the calming moments. I realized that when using different shades that I am able to portray different images in the picture and emphasize others.