Thursday, 4 January 2018

Self Publishing - The Portrait

This has to be one of my favourite sessions we've done so far this year. We focused purely on ourselves in order to create a number of different portraits which had been worked on over and over.
We began by working on our uni card photo, which we deconstructed and made into a completely new image.

We then moved onto photocopying our face there and then, this was particularly amusing seeing what different faces we could pull in order to make a strange looking outcome. I felt particularly insecure about mine and therefore the whole image won't make it to this blog post, but the deconstructed one will as it was part of the workshop. 


We then moved onto drawing one of the deconstructions we had made, I chose to draw the first one which I created, we were only allowed to use black pen in order to produce these drawings to ensure that they were all free hand, quick drawings. 


Our final piece was to create a copy of a piece we had already created using a number of different half tone textures which we had been given, this was my favourite technique which we used as it gave me the opportunity to work with a texture which I haven't worked with before. It was the piece which took the longest and it was extremely interesting to do. 


This was my final piece with the original piece along side it to demonstrate where i had got my ideas from. I thoroughly enjoyed this workshop and I will definitely be experimenting with these techniques in my future work.