Hanouf Alharbi
Advanced Drawing
MAR 12, 2018
Symbolic Self-Portrait
Nine years ago, I started to draw portraits with pencils. Then I started painting with acrylic colors. After a year of painting with acrylic, I decided to change the medium to oil colors. It was harder than acrylic because you have to use a lot of tools and products, as well as you have to clean your brushes very hard because oil painting doesn't go away quickly from brushes. After I learned how to paint with oil colors, I fell in love with the final result of my paintings. For me, oil colors are the best. It makes your painting very realistic. I started painting large sizes of paintings. I was excited about three international galleries. Most of my paintings have a story behind them. Emotional, dramatic, sadness, happiness, and even personal stories. However, I have some paintings that don't have stories behind them. After I learned how to paint portraits, I decided to focus on one thing on people face, which is eyes. I draw and paint eyes because it is our most expressive characteristic. Happy, sad, upset, angry, tired, like, dislike, or cry, all these emotions you can know it just by looking on someone eyes. I have painted eyes on canvas, wood, and fabrics. So my painting skills have improved quickly. Last semester I was looking into improving my drawing skills as well as my painting skills so I decided to take the drawing class. This semester I'm taking the advanced drawing class. It's a great class more that what I was expecting. I am learning a lot of things in this class. My drawing skills with dry media have improved as well as with wet media. We are using chorales, watercolor, and ink to draw. I did some projects in this class, and the most recent one is the Symbolic self-portrait. I have to draw anything that belongs to me. Like my self-portraits, something in my bag, or anything that belongs to me. I thought what things that belong to me I can draw it instead of my face portrait. Last week was my little sister’s birthday, so when she blew the candles, I remembered my birthday. So I got the idea of drawing my zodiac sign, which is Scorpio. However, I decided to add another thing that belongs to me and fit with my zodiac sign. I found that my fingerprint will match perfectly because it's oval shape so it can fit with the scorpion’s body. I chose charcoals and pencil as the mediums to draw my fingerprint first, and after I finish it, I started to draw the head of a scorpion. Then I continued to draw the hands, legs, and the tail. This is my first time that I drew a scorpion and a fingerprint. It was a really enjoyable project for me because it was also my first time to drawing something that belongs to me. I could draw my face portrait, but I chose to change and do something else that I have never done it before. And I found symbolic self-portrait project helps me to express my personality to the others by drawing things that belong to me.
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