The images of the planning pages I've included from my sketchbook (above) pretty much sum up my next steps for this project. I still need to finish shading the heart itself and making sure the colors are as bold as I want them to be. I struggled with the textures of the upper left quadrant a lot, especially since there is a pretty large area of highlight in the photo that I wasn't sure how to capture. I explained my concerns about the areas with highlight to Coach, and he suggested I take a bit of artistic license. So, I am just sort of pretending like those highlights don't really exist because they are incredibly difficult to render using colored pencil. Once I finish coloring the heart, I'll begin on the windows and door. As depicted in my planning pages, I've been thinking about how to best portray the angles of the windows and door because I want it to be clear the heart has dimension and depth. It is tricky because it is not an even globe shape, so the angles are a bit different for each part. I think what I will probably do is begin with a horizon line and adjust the lines I use as markers according to the irregular curves. I think I'm going to follow Coach's suggestion of making the door inset so that there's an entryway and the door itself is set back into the heart. I think this would give a really awesome sense of depth to the piece and be more visually interesting than a regular door. Plus, as he pointed out, it would be very difficult to draw the door distorted on the surface of the heart.
I'm both nervous and excited for these next steps in my progress... but mostly excited!
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