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Day 12-

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  Tuesday, May 23rd-     The final day, I spent most of today running around and tieing up loose ends. I started rather late today after working late the previous night but with that, I spent the majority of the day catching up on assignments and covering mandatory tasks. Eventually sitting down and working on my piece a bit after 3:00pm, working between other tasks until 9:30pm for a dorm meeting.  In the time spent working, I mostly focused on figuring the hair out. I have previously mentioned that I enjoy drawing or painting hair, however, in this piece, it's proven difficult to find a balance in detailing. I believe I will spend some of the in-between hours tomorrow working to refurbish the hair a bit, as well as significantly finishing up the background. From the few people who have seen my piece, they all commented on the contrast of the foreground to the background. I was already going to do this (as I always planned on it and I think it looks good), but more so I will focus
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Week 2 Reflection Post

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  Sunday, May 21st-     Unfortunately, this Weekly Reflection will be on the weaker side, as I was absent for the majority of the week so there is only so much I can write about. I have been working to be able to be present for m y brother's graduation from Colgate University in upstate New York. While it was amazing and all the transportation chaos to get there was worth it. The main focus must now return to progress and reflection!     Before leaving, however, this week was also quite busy with work. Despite being absent for three and a half days my hour total is twenty-four hours, which was necessary for my time fulfillment and my piece's progress. Looking back on the week, it is quite intense how quickly the piece developed, going from light shading and untouched areas to how it nearly looks now at the very end of the week.     The two photos were taken a day apart, almost exactly twenty-four hours, and although it is obvious to anyone, it shocks me the most how different t
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Day 10-

  Thursday, May 18th-     Hello, unfortunately, today will be a very brief blog as I was only on campus until 11:00 am. Last night was mostly working and figuring out today's travel plans, so I packed up this morning with about an hour and a half  of blending on the piece then headed off! I am now currently writing this before my flight out of Logan and considering whether or not I should show people my current piece. There are many sides to showing people unfinished work, some people think you should leave it as is, others point out something you never noticed, and some are both aka my mother. Luckily people have responded very positively so I am excited to get some feedback before my final push. -Written @ 4:23pm
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Day 11-

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  Monday, May 22nd-      Arriving back on campus around 5:00pm, I spent my first two hours or so unpacking and finally getting some blogs up! With this being my first time with my piece since Thursday morning, I noticed a few things in the piece. Such as the bottom row of teeth being too low, the neck needing more work, and the head now with hair being quite large... OH WELL!! NOT MUCH I CAN DO ABOUT THAT NOW ehhehehe, it looks fine...  Also from henceforth, with some inspiration from my roommate, I will now be updating with sneak peek photos for the final piece to be perceived in person as it should be. So while working I enjoyed occasionally taking some very zoomed-in photos and relearning my process. Such as around 11:00 pm or so, I was perplexed as to why I wasn't able to achieve the same blend gradient and I realized I had forgotten what tools and brushes I was using.            Focusing on the actual process, as mentioned in my days away and in the times I looked back at the
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Day 9-

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  Wednesday, May 17th- Following multiple rather productive days, my momentum is slowing a fair amount. I've reached a point where everything has been started and now the finishing details and work is all that's left. In other words... extremely tedious and slow work.  My main focus after Tuesday's long push has been hair, it's going well, Logan and I were joking about making their hair a bit more voluminous as Logan's hair in the photo was still a bit wet and rather flat. But having some fun with that, it seems to have coincidentally made Logan's shoulders much slimmer than in the original photo. That'll certainly be my focus for tomorrow morning and when I return! Nonetheless, for current progress, the base layer is complete with the hair now started. So far my only concern for the hair is being able to show the depth and difference of curls, having a distinction between the locks. I do enjoy drawing hair though as I've always thought the lighting and
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Week 1 Reflection Post

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Sunday, May 14th: The Creature In My Room      Anyways!! So I decided to begin with the inspiration and reference piece. A candid evening photo I took on my adored digital camera, as I had earlier decided on my roommate Logan to be my model. Since I wanted something more challenging than a singular flower blossom but I needed someone who was present (so family and dogs were out of the equation).         With my goal being a realistic rendition of sorts, it is absolutely necessary for the proportions, scaling, and features. Especially considering that charcoal is a medium that can never fully be erased, this is something I always struggle with when using charcoal. While I have briefly mentioned this scaling style a few times, I believe its importance deserves to be restated. So as proportions are so important, the surest way of success is using a grid technique. Often referred to as the 'realism grid method' or Kelly Grid and laddering which are more on the mathematical side. Be
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Day 8-

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  Tuesday, May 16th-      Today I put into action the fact that I need to speed up the process a bit in order for me to finish on time with my absent days coming up. In order to accomplish that, I worked about 11 hours... writing that is odd to me, but yup, I watched six Peaky Blinders episodes and listened through an entire five-hour playlist. At one point today I lay down on the floor and it was the most euphoric feeling I had felt in days.         I spent the majority of today working on the shirt, I still have another hour or so of work on it before I can say it's done. Then from there, I moved on to the hair, it's pretty obvious that I stated in the bottom right corner, but hopefully, by the end it'll all look as detailed and later even better. I also hope that I will be able to mask the fact that the shirt looks so much better than the rest of it, as briefly mentioned before, drawing clothing is something oddly natural to me. So along with finishing up the hair mostly
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