The document provides initial ideas for a portraiture project responding to various artists, including creating a zoetrope with changing facial expressions, photographing someone through textured glass to distort their face, distorting a face using reflections and shadows to create an optical illusion, and creating an anonymous portrait by printing over a photograph with scribbles on acetate like Arnulf Rainer. It also suggests transforming a person using different props and costumes with a simple background, playing with structure, light, focus, color, and including photos in illustrated collages.