Home Project #1 Progress

For my first project, I decided to paint a portrait of Kurt Cobain. My thought process going into this project is if I want to continue with portraits, I could do portraits of my favorite musicians who committed suicide and have that link all of the works. I have just sketched out where I think the portrait is going to be, but I want to try and make it in a style similar to Jenny Saville's, so it is possible that the details of the sketch will be more distorted as I paint. The biggest challenge for this work was just figuring out what I wanted to make; because there are no guidelines I really struggled with coming up with an idea that I considered good enough, and at this point I really just want to make something that will allow me to experiment with different styles and concepts.

Preliminary sketching