I made a lot of progress on laying the groundwork for my drawing this week. I was having a difficult time figuring out how I would do the interior because I wanted it to be realistic, but I didn't know how to get the perspective and shading right without just copying images from the internet. This felt like cheating, so I looked into some architecture software to try and basically try to design a house interior that I could use as a completely original reference. That proved to be hopeless. I explained my conundrum to Coach Hall, and he agreed with me that using a doll-house would be a good option. The focus of my work is on the style of the house; the physical elements are just there for realism. The real content will come when I begin using colors to bring the details to life.
Drawing the face was very challenging. It's always hard to get proportions correct on faces, especially when it's your own. I keep running into the problem of wanting to gloss over my imperfections and actually rendering myself realistically, flaws and all. I try to make sure the realistic part wins. I've obsessed over all of the details of my face, and I think I've finally reached a good point in my sketching. The upcoming week will be all about adding color. I think I am going to use colored pencil. Each room of the house will be a separate color to represent emotion: red for anger, blue for sadness, yellow for happiness, and purple for fear. I'm just going to use a black colored pencil to shade in my face and hair. I want everything to be realistic to create a sense of surrealism -- at least, as much as I can; I haven't created a truly surrealist work before, so I am going to make my best effort to do so now.
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