4/19/08 - I made the enlargement of the reference picture I needed and have begun the drawing. I make the initial drawing onto tracing paper, darken the back of the tracing paper with pencil, and then trace the drawing onto scratchboard. This process allows me to edit and tweak the piece as needed before it is applied to the scratchboard for the finished work.

I knew that working on this piece would require a lot of repetitive work, and I'm not just drawing each "item" as a duplicate; I decided to render each "item" as an individual object, so that each one will be slightly different. You will understand why that is important later on. I can tell this is going to be a highly emotional piece to create, and my goal is to channel all of that emotion into it.

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