I have never liked drawing or painting faces but when I learned that our next project was a self portrait I was excited to see how my piece would turn out. Right off the bat I knew I didn't was to take a realistic approach so I began exploring the different method that other artists had taken when painting self portraits. I knew I wanted my medium to be paint for this piece because my last two pieces had been with prismas. I also knew that I wanted my medium to be acrylic paint and not oil paint because I hadn't done a project in acrylic yet. After looking through many ideas I couldn't settle on one, then one day in class I was exploring a picture app that i have on my phone and I found that there were many weird effects you could put on a photo so I took the selfie I had chosen for my self portrait and I started applying different filters and effects on it. Finally I came across one that looks similar to my final, the only difference is that it was pixalated and the third color on it was a crimson red instead of the red-orange that I used. I'm surprisingly happy with the way this turned out, I wasn't happy with it when I was in the middle of it and I did consider restarting a few times but instead I stuck with it. The hardest part about this pieces was getting all the lines to be nice and clean and now all over the place. another challenge was getting the colors to look even and smooth. Overall I liked this project and I hope that sometime in the future I can attempt another self portrait maybe in a deferent style.
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