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New Background for Decomposition Project

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New Background for Decomposition Project

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I'm using a scan of my graphic novel "Code Green" for one of my independent projects. I spend a lot of time on each graphic novel page, making sure I properly communicate the character's thoughts about what's going on in the story. On this page, the character is in her room after having a fight with her mom about her health - she has an eating disorder. She's struggling with the choice of seeking treatment and getting better, but still feeling shame over her condition. Her desk is messy because she's more focused on food and her eating disorder than keeping her room clean.

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Photo I took of my cat. I'm basing my drawing off this.

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Progress Photo 2.

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Progress Photo 1. Started the grid and stretched the watercolor paper, and then sketching my cat.

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Progress Photo 3

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Progress Photo 3 (alternate view)

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Worked on this piece pretty much nonstop on Sunday. I got really into the oil pastel background and layering, and I think I can say that I'm almost done. There's a little more shading to do behind the prescription bottle but that's about it. I added the herbal supplement capsules (spilling out of the pill bottle) as a neat 3D element.

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Added some oil pastel shading on the white sleeves and the hands. I'm pretty happy with how the tones and the colors are working so far.

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The colored pencil shading on the arms are basically done. Halfway through shading the legs.

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Started shading the arms and the legs, still in progress.

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Started sketching on the Yupo paper. It's a different feel to what I'm used to but I'm confident that I can use it effectively in this project.

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Continued adding depth to the painting using a mix of Bombay Inks and Dr. Marten's inks.

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Added a 3D element to the flower.

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This is the background I have now. I plan on adding tissue paper (white tissue paper) over the really vivid parts of the image, because it would help the image flow better.

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Added some more oil pastel, including some more cool colors to balance out the green.

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I have cut the figure out of the original image. The next step is to cut the oil pastel portion of the drawing into circles!

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I've continued to outline the shape(s) of the neurons in oil pastel. The primary color palette is green, so I'm adding some blue to improve the balance between warmer and cooler colors.

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Just added a colored pencil shading of the brain in pink. I also lightly shaded the hair, which I will continue later. I'm mimicking it off my own hair so it should be a shade of dark brown.

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(Pose I used for the original subject)

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Some progress, I've outlined the anatomy of the subject and used oil pastel on the right side. The oil pastel features are supposed to mimic the shape of neurons firing in the brain, and the little white-yellow stars are the neurons lighting up.

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I've started to fill in the face with colored pencil shading. The colored pencil is kinda thick because it needs to show up on black paper, but overall, I think I'm making good progress on the colored pencil figure.