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"" day 8. I drew the theme "old" with the medium "pastels(?)." Since I recently finished "infant" and "filmstill" I was in the realm of objects taking on human qualities. This led me to the idea doing a pastel picture of Tsukumogami, a Japanese concept in which objects are granted a soul after 100 years of service. After a bit of resarch to refresh my memory on the qualities of a typical Tsukumogami, I got to work. I took a picture of objects at the table I was working at, for reference, then started drawing the scene with the objects looking as they were. I also decided that I'd only use the colors avalible to me in the pastel box I chose. After drawing for a few minutes, I realised that my relationships were off, but didn't want to start over because I liked the way the waterbottle came out, so I switched to drawing with shapes and finished the normal picture. Then, I erased parts of the objects to make room to include living features.