The Parts

"Once upon a time deep beneath the crystal sea, a girl with eyes like broken glass lay bound in kelp and sharp little fish bones, dragged through the silt by the currents of the ocean..."

Not JUST drawing dolls, but distorted bodies with a view to illustrating the kelp-girl.

Things I was considering in terms of body type & distortion thereof- Naoko Takeuchi's sailor moon manga style- long, slender, effeminate shapes: 

  Comparatively, a chibi of sailor chibi moon to display the other extreme of 'kawaii' japanese distortions:

 Betty Boop, much like a chibi distortion:

Jhonen Vasquez's art style displays similar:

Tim Burton's pen and ink Edward Gorey/German Expressionism derivative:

Considering blacked out eyes or the blank alternative. I think blacked out looks terrible, so I'm glad I established this early on:

Drawings of doll anatomy, separate pieces, smashed up bodies:

Thinking about the distortion of the body in liquid, fractured by the crystalline sea:

Thinking about the glass-plate sea and the girl bound in kelp. Different bindings. Different materials. Etc:

Ink and water marks of Hair, Twine and Bandages:

Using watered down cellulose to mono-print an image of my broken&bound doll, Rauschenberg style?

Misty, wet, but still with the suggestion of the figure bound. I may use one of these as a background for my girl piece. I 

Rauschenberg: 

Looking at Rauschenberg's technique (I think this is from my second post):

Misty background type things:

Use of colour, use of distortion, water/acid moving and Picasso's drawing everything - both front and back - simple cubism, pieces trapped in a prism of something or other:

Drawing and layering the parts to form an image:

Thinking about 'Picasso Style', cubist front and back - the 360 degree art of Stephen Wiltshire:

Applying it to the doll's head, and the idea of the broken layers of self in the sea:

This part joins onto the one beneath it, but I didn't know how to take a big panaramic photo:

I forgot to photograph the last part...

Thing is, drawing a very small, shapely & rounded as a panorama is very tricky - it looks completely different only a few mm across, which is my excuse for the lack of continuity between the parts and, also, at the behest of my teacher I was trying to draw much larger than I normally do but I kept altering back to the actual size of the doll head and the perspective got MORE screwed. But I liked doing this very much anyhow.