Today, the class learned how to do portraits. Claire had us make a face diagram for all the suggestions on how to make a face look more face-y, including the tips: shade the upper lip, suggest the lower lip with the chin shadow, the eye line has five eye-widths with the two real eyes separated by eyes on each side– if that makes any sense…– nostrils are dark, and so are pupils, so get those and you’re on your way. The advice came in handy when I was practicing on my podmates. It was really a treat to stare at them like this. We took turns modeling for 10 minutes each. Here’s Pete’s version of me: