Dean shrugged off her decision not to add a head substitute for now, in the long run it was easy enough to draw the lower half before adding in the upper. "Just take care with the shoulders and don't add shadowing before you add the head," he said. At the sketching stage it didn't matter too much, but she'd need a head in some for before she began to paint in earnest. "Something specific that you need to look up, or will a standard Avis do?" he asked, curious about precisely what she was trying to create. He was still contemplating the manikin and her work so far when she asked her question, which startled him into a smile.
"It was good fun, I mean we got the right place, we just didn't get there fast enough," he said with a shrug. "I mean it's a miracle Seamus managed to keep where he was hiding quiet, but yeah. Good fun."
Scratching idly at the edge of his hair he nodded. "Yeah, an idea, I think. I'm not sure. It's just sort of nagging around in there and I can't settle to anything else so I thought a change of scene might help. Sometimes it works, sometimes the idea will pop to the front if I have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night."