I was really struggling to find images of distorted body parts/ body parts in jars online (only foetuses) and drawing them from my imagination was too much of a struggle so I decided to take some reference photos of my own. The images of the distorted hands and feet were ideal - all I had to do was place them in a jar. However, I had much more trouble with the face. I would have ideally liked to buy a bell jar and have placed my own head inside it but I couldn't find one big enough. I found that when I was drawing from my own face I was putting in too much detail and I could't work out what to leave out. I wanted the head to appear to be floating in a dark liquid. I also wanted it to resemble Sylvia Plath more.
I tried this placing Sylvia Plath's face in a jar. The result is a vast improvement from my other drawings but I am worried that it still looks too two dimensional. I think that this is because I was drawing from an over exposed photograph. It kinda resembles Bowie...
I think that I need to try obscuring the image more? - maybe zooming in on a certain characteristics? Adding more darks, depth/ things overpaying her face = bubbles, swirls, reflections - TOO OBVIOUS
I am going to present it in my crit tomorrow and see what everyone else thinks
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