For this project, we were asked to create a self portrait and were allowed to choose any medium to make it. We then were told that we had to make sure our self portraits were not generic and that there were elements within the piece that made it stand out. I took some pictures and messed around by putting paint on my face and using a matching bandanna. After all of the different pictures I took, I ended up using this one for my piece.
For my medium, I went with digital. Digital is a medium that I have a decent amount of knowledge with and have been working with it for around 5 years. This piece, however, was new to me. I had never attempted semi-realism and have only done a few test sketches for it, so this was a step out of my comfort zone. To achieve the look I got, I started with the base skin color and went over with generic shapes of color and slowly got deeper with color values. For realism, i had quite a few issues that I had to overcome. Usually I have exaggerated features with eyes and lips with my general cartoon style so I had to conform the shapes to be slightly more anatomically correct. Coloring was also an issue cause I'm not used to getting deep colors on the skin tones. In the end, I was able to pull it all together and create this piece, I am happy with how it turned out and I am glad I went out of my usual comfort zone.
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