...I decided again that the shape of the canvas was wrong. I know better than that but sometimes I forget. I theorized that the Golden Section would be just the thing to cure my compositional ills, so I looked up the proportions and recropped the image to conform to its divine dimensions. It ended up working but I really chalk that up to blind luck and coincidence.
...During all that fussing about I did take the opportunity to reexamine what it was I was trying to show with this piece. Was it all about this woman? Was she some great character, some "star" that I was making my picture around? Nah, I was just smitten with her.
...I enjoy making the female characters' body types different than what is the norm, just because it's fun and different and that standard "hot babe" shtick just bores the hell out of me. I don't claim I haven't done it and that I won't do it again, no, I just don't want to make that MY shtick. I think I fell in love with the idea of fitting this character into this painting when that wasn't really want I wanted to be focusing on.
...I wanted to get a story across rather than have the audience take notice of this woman. She had to go.
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