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Exploring self portraits

We were asked to draw a self portrait for next week, the only specifics were it had to be in pencil, and we had to be wearing a hat.  I started looking into self portraits and how artist can use them to express themselves.

I wanted to look at three things, amount of detail, style and expression. I don't really own any hats and i was looking around trying to borrow some, but then i thought, i don't wear hats... thats not really me, and i wanted to express myself... so what could i use?

I used a strainer on my head, found an old monocle and made a moustache and goatee out of paper... i thought about who i am, and to be honest i don't completely know. I feel i can be whoever i socially have to be. But one thing i do think i am is funny, and confident. I really wanted to express that in my drawing. I dress up to who i have to be that day, and i thought adding the goatee, moustache and monocle would be a funny way of expressing that thought. 

I then moved onto another thought about who i am, i am an artist, i am very caring, how could i express that in a drawing?

My cat has a habit of sitting on my shoulders and head and i wanted to try and draw that, i added the pencil because when i was drawing my face in the mirror i caught i glance of myself holding the pencil like this, i wanted to look more into style with this one i used scribbles and cross lines to fill in a lot of it. but i thought how far can i take it?? 

This one is a frying pan on my head, i wanted it to be slanted and a bit crazy then use expressive lines very, very loosely and quickly, to get it down, i think the scribbled lines works well with the energy of the image and it was really fun drawing this. I don't know if we are going to turn these into prints, so i really only had to do one with a hat on, but i took the opportunity to go a bit crazy, i wanted to explore myself and how to express it, and i am happy i did. i am loving drawing these, they really dominated my attention the last two days and i couldn't step away from them. 

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  1. DEMart@design25 September 2016 at 04:00

    I like the thought you put into these.. Funny but effective haha

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    1. Catrina Barquist25 September 2016 at 04:16

      thank you, it was a lot of fun! :D cant wait to see everyones.

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