Morgan Grimes 3.12.18
Advanced Drawing
Project 2: Symbolic Self Portrait
This
assignment is one that I think gave a lot of freedom, and I wanted to explore
that freedom in a way that was meaningful to me. I decided to do a series for
this project because I feel narratives and progression images are something
that I work well with. In addition many of my ideas flow off one another and
contain multiple images, and I felt that a series of images would be better
rather than trying to put too many ideas onto one piece of paper. For this
assignment I wanted to explore a part of myself. I thought about my interests
and personality and wanted to do something that explored both of those. I was
very inspired by Dr. Mohammad Kamal and the work that he is now exhibiting that
is called Artiscopic Cellular Art. His art comes from below the microscope and
with my love of chemistry as well as biology I wanted to give this a try. At
first I wanted to highlight my journey through chemistry and biology and some
of the struggles I have faced in such a demanding major, but I kept hitting a
wall with ideas. Because of this I started to focus more on Biology instead of
chemistry. Since the assignment was to draw a symbolic self-portrait I didn’t
want to get too lost in the biology. Dr. Mohammad’s work was a little too small
for what I was aiming for. As I searched for images I realized that I still
wanted to do a “traditional” self-portrait, I just wanted to add my own
interests onto my self-portrait. From this idea I came up with doing multiple
“portraits” but each one peeling back a layer.
For the first
portrait I chose an image of me that was simple. My hair is just blond, and I
don’t have any makeup on. I wanted a portrait that was as “natural” as
possible, I wanted my ideas to flow through my progression of images as a
whole, not just form my traditional self-portrait. For the next image I peeled
back the layer of skin. For this image I chose bright reds and wanted to make
the muscles as realistic as possible. I made sure to use references of
anatomically correct facial muscles. For this series of images I also wanted
them to feel as though they could be placed on top of one another, as though
they build upon each other. To achieve this I kept the face size and rendered
the features as close as possible to the same place in each image. For the next
image I peeled back the muscles to reveal the eyes and the veins/arteries in
the face. For this one the eyes popped out a lot as they are pure white against
a dark grey, and so again I chose a brighter red to help the veins/arteries be
equal with the eyes. For the last image I stripped away the eyes and all the
veins/arteries and finished the series with a simple skull. For me this series
was great because it gave me a chance to work anatomically correct and also
express my interest in biology, and that for me was a great was to do a
symbolic self-portrait.
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