In my planning on procreate, I did add a cartoony face. I painted it on, sort of half seriously, and wanted to conceal it again. I didn't know if I wanted it to be really clear. I liked the effect of a sort-of half-presence of the eyes. I also found it hard to paint on basically unprimed canvas with oil (of course, what was I thinking) but this led me to be freer with acrylics, gouache, watercolour, ink, it was freeing because it didn't matter what it looked like when I splashed colours on there cause I could easily dilute the pigments again with water. I added the text too, which completes the painting that much more. I just used pencil, and I don't mind the casual-ness of it at all. there's also the sense that it is something that won't last too long. The text itself, it is supposed to read as a stream of consciousness, perhaps how we all feel inside, though I am scared that it will read as just plain depressed or cliché, instead of somewhat humorous. i might ask some people around me what they think. As for my other Drowning Love painting, I was stuck for a few days, didn't want to look at it, but I finally forced myself to cover more of the painting, and that made it look much better, even though I wasn't too precise on the colour matching/mixing... all the grey-browns and grey-lilacs and grey-blues look almost identical to me... I hope in the end it turns out alright... and that I can fix that ugly part of the boxes that's supposed to be one of the focuses of this painting (is it bad to have too many focuses? I just want to detail everything)
