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"" Day 4
I drew the theme "middle aged" with the media "old photo album."
At first I was going to take a nice sepia picture of...my parents, but I felt in the mood to draw and I wanted to get this done during the period. So, I decided on printing out an old-fashioned photo of a livingroom, then drawing in a middle aged person. I also decided I wanted the person to have a big grin.
When I looked up pictures of old photos, the first photo that caught my eye was one of a 1920's train station. I decided that, instead of a livingroom, I wanted to use this picture.

I also decided that I wanted to have a middle aged conductor (with the stereotypical handlebar(?) mustache.) I found a reference of an old train conductor and printed it out.

I tried the "carving" technique again, this time with pencil.

An unintended result of cutting it out, but it looked neat!

I was going to draw the person right on the picture, but then I realized that the drawing wouldn't have shown up, so I drew on a separate piece of paper and cut it out. I also cut out a "matte" for the picture, then pasted the whole thing together

The "shadow" on the left isn't the final product. I was having a bit of fun with the remains of the paper after I cut out the conductor