For this project, we had to go out and take pictures of ourselves for our self portraits. Since i had just gotten a pair of new glasses, i decided that i wanted to take a picture with them, and just experimented with different angles and different cropped versions of the pictures till i got what i wanted. The picture that i liked the most was when i cropped from my nose down off of it and blew it up, because then it makes my face come off the page which makes it look really interesting versus if it was just normal with the whole head in there. I really wanted to incorporate watercolor into this project for some reason, i think because i really liked using it in the two pieces that i did over the summer and its also really fun to use and can look really cool and different, I kind of wanted my self portrait to be on the different side and be a little more pop culture inspired, so i wanted to do a design in water color in the background. I took a brush and like seven different colors and just painted big circles over and over so that they would overlap each other in the background until it took up the entire page. Then, i drew myself in pencil first in the background to make sure that that's how i wanted it, and then went back over it in detail with the pen. After i was finished, i think that it turned out really well and i was planning to actually crop the top part of the piece off so it was just the head but then i thought that it might be cooler if i put something up there. Since it kind of looks like i am thinking about something in the picture, i thought i should but a thought bubble up there which i actually really ended up liking and cant see the piece without it. Overall i think that this turned out pretty well and am pretty satisfied with it, but i would like to maybe do a lot more detailing with the hair, i feel like that is a little lacking.
For this project,we had to come up with an idea of something to do with nature and turn it mechanical. For the most part, we were to do it with drawing methods as opposed to paint and canvas. My three main ideas for this project were to do a mechanical wolf, a mechanical stag, or a mechanical orca whale. In the end, i landed on doing the mechanical wolf because i figured that would probably turn out the coolest because i could add a lot of detailing into the fur and make the gears look a part of it. Next, for my medium, i was torn between doing it in graphite and pen. I started out doing it in graphite, but the way that the piece looked in my head i thought that this would best be presented in pen. I really really enjoy working with pen and the way that it gives the piece a really clean, smooth image like as if it was printed off online or something. The thing that gave me the most trouble with this project is the background. I wasn't sure what i was going to do for the background after i drew the mountains in, but it just did not look right in just plain white like that it was too dull and boring. I decided i wanted to make the mountains mechanical as well since they are a part of nature anyways so why shouldn't they be? I love the way the background turned out, but i do not like the way that it now takes away from the wolf. When i get the chance, i think that i would like to go back in and color all of the white part in the background of the mountains maybe a bright color like a red or a blue so that the wolf will pop out again because it is really the center focus of the piece and needs to stay that way. Overall, i really liked the topic and the idea of this project and it was a fun and creative idea although i was not sure about it at first, and i would definitely like to do it again.
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