Plath's eye

Ok, this is part A for my latest project at uni - we were asked to choose between 2 artists (I chose Sylvia Plath) and draw a portrait of them for a magazine cover (and also an inside illustration, which I'll put up here later) So this is the portrait....sort of.
I did draw a proper portrait of her face and everything, but my tutor liked the 'eye' design the best. O.o She wrote quite a lot of sad poetry, and also a lot about nature, so I wanted to show this within the picture. For the shadow next to the nose and eye, I wanted it to resemble a tree, and also bring in other elements of her work; hair being fire, poppy in the eye, leaves etc.
So er, ta-daaa!

(Excuse the fuzziness of it - it's actually a photo of the work and *still* doesn't show the whole thing. 9_9)