Yesterday I began drawing out the room At this stage I was thinking I might've been a bit excessive with the grid guide lines. My ruler didn't have a fixed upright position so theses line were a massive help keeping the accuracy in check. The leg needs taken further back on the table. I need to correct that right oval. Problems I'm encountering so far. I'm using high quality paper but given as I need my pencil to be sharp for the accuracy it's cutting into it. As well when I'm rubbing out a line and redoing it its like working the cut and it's fluffing the fabric up. Rubbing out grazes the surface and it's leaving like a muddy area around my corrected line work n loads of scratches around that right oval. Alas this probably wont be the paper I use to execute the final piece. At this stage I'm thinking just finish the line work and then I've got like a hard copy of the interior I can use for tracing over. + given as I've originally imagined these lizards in more of a simplistic 2d way, I'm gonna have to apply perspective to them. I'm think layout paper will come in handy here. I've not really considered the detail/texture of the lizards either. It'll work better more minimalist detail as what is going on around them is gonna be pretty detailed.

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