Elizabeth
Underwood
I chose to do the face among the leaves when
Marlow and his steamboat crew are under attack from natives hiding in the
brush. Marlow describes the face as “I
saw a face amongst the leaves on the level with my own, looking at me very
fierce and steady” (41). One reason I
decide to draw this face is because everything around the face is blended in
with the shrubbery; “I made out, deep in the tangled gloom, naked breasts,
arms, legs, glaring eyes—the bush was swarming with human limbs in movement,
glistening, of bronze color” (41), and the face is the first thing Marlow
notices when he glances out the window, and the most defined object that he
tells his audience about.
I chose to do this project in pastels, the
chalky kind verses the smoother kind, mostly because I like to draw leaves and
trees with this media, and I appreciate how the colors turn out against the
black paper. The face did not turn out
as defined as I had hoped—especially the eyes--but I do like all the colors
blended into his face. Over all, I am
pleased how the final product turned out.
