I worked on this for a very, very long time today; I mostly was just using this as an excuse to avoid studying for my global test on Tuesday. Oops.
Anyways, I agonized over the proportions of the lips for a while, but I think that they ended up coming out alright. I plan on making any other necessary modifications while actually applying the metalpoint and white conte crayon. Using the contact paper really helped, especially since I could fold it to make a grid, in addition to the fact that I could erase and redraw without ruining my paper. Plus, transferring was super easy. Magical, even. I know that you really can't see it all that well on the right, but that's the best I could do; I don't want to make the outline too dark -- just light enough that I can see it while drawing over it. Also, there are some weird streaks on my ground that are lighter than the rest of the paper. I don't know why this is, but it was really bothering me. I realized, though, that since I had to make the image proportionate to the contact paper, I will have to resize my paper to be the same size as the contact paper. Now, I don't have to worry about the odd streaks because they will be cut off. And, I painted on the same side as the watermark... which was probably kind of dumb, but I figured that the side with the sticker on it would be the back of the paper, but I don't know now... anyways, the watermark will also be cut off. So, those two problems are taken care of. I plan on getting the metalpoint and conte crayon in class on Monday, and I hope to make steady progress throughout the week, although it's more realistic to expect that I will start working on it at, like, 10 pm Friday night and obsess over it for three hours straight. Whatever works, I guess.
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