17 Xintian

Today, we outlined our portrait, identified and defined the different lightings and shadows on our face. It wasn't hard identifying the darker shades, however it did take some time to outline the lighter bits because it was in black and white.

Using carbon paper, we traced out the outline of our facial features onto a blank piece of paper so that its clearer for us to use as reference for later steps. This step was quite confusing as I didn't know whether I have traced certain parts before and have to constantly lift the picture up to check. However, the carbon paper did help to transfer quite smoothly with not much strength needed

Tracing the outline onto the cardboard was rather easy as it was similar to the previous step. However, cutting it out was quite troublesome, like cutting the curves near the neck, I had to make sure I didn't bend the cardboard to prevent the neck from snapping in half, similar issue was faced near the inner curves of the ears. But through time and effort,  I got the hang of it.

While outlining each feature, it was a bit difficult as I wanted to conserve as much cardboard as possible but at the same time didnt know whether what i was tracing on top of the carbon paper was gonna overlap of go off the remaining cardboard.

I had to determine what cardboard to use for ccertain shadows and highlights by carefully analysing the picture

Today, I finally finished pasting and layering all the contour. I think overall it looks quite decent, however I couldn't cut out the outlines exactly, that's why on some feature, there is still bits and pieces of the black carbon outline. I wasn't careful enough with the glue, thus also resulting so some faint glue stains in certain places.

Today, I finished cutting and pasting all the hair strands to form my first hairstyle. Some strands kept falling out but with the correct layering and positioning, it came out pretty well.

While brainstorming different shirt designs, I was in a dilemma on which design I should go with, but I decided to settle with this checkered design with a cute mascot in front. I made the checkered design by constantly overlapping different cardboard stripes, the cardboard was the perfect softness thus it was quite easy to intersect

After finishing the designs, to combine everything together so that it stays, we used velcro to make sure it stays in place and does not disassemble into seperate pieces

After finishing all the work, I pasted the stand behind my head so that it stands