Assignment 3 - Coursera - CalArts

The task was to create a portrait based on a text in death or marriage notices. (I missed the part about where the text should have been taken from, but I hope it doesn't matter, as this is an optional task anyway.) The first idea I had was to draw Sei Shonagon, a Japanese writer of Heian period, based on how I pictured her after reading The Pillow Book. Actually there's no description of her appearance (apart from her mentioning she wasn't beautiful).