Before we started our project 1, we were asked to watch the lecture video
given by Dr Jinchi that gave us a clear explanation about self-portrait.
Firstly, she gave an introduction of the lecture about human being. Humans
are social creature who have to interact with others. Sometimes our image to
others may differ from what we view ourselves. We let people see us by
interacting, like our personality, behaviour, emotions, etc. The way our
parents see us can be different from how our friends see us.
Next, Ms Jinchi explained to us the definition of self-portrait – A
self-representation in the form of a drawing/painting/sculpture/ design. It
is a visual depiction of the self. Besides, a self-portrait artwork
represents the designer or artist—in other words, how he sees himself, what
he's feeling, and how he wants to be seen by others. It's not necessarily
about creating a realistic image of yourself; instead, it's often an
exercise in self-exploration. Dr Jinchi suggests that the best way to start
is by creating a mind map to help us brainstorm and organize our idea.
Here are some examples of Self-Portrait:
Fig. 2 Self Portrait By Van Gogh
Fig. 4 Abstract self-portrait of the photographer
by Logan Maruszak
Contemplate on your life experiences, which includes your culture, your
family, your friends, your schooldays, your favourite hangouts, your
favourite music, food, musician, etc. Observe your surroundings- people,
vehicles, buildings, plants, signages, nature, and activities.
Study all the visuals that you had collected. Select visuals that you find
relevant and interesting to you, which you can translate into a design
work to create a portrait of yourself. Remember to apply design principles
in your work. For materials, you may use any of your choice, but do
consider their suitability to best express your idea.
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“ A self-portrait is a representation of an artist created by that artist.
Thought history self-portraits have been made in every medium imaginable –
photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures etc. Therefore, while with
painting the artist is free to represent anything his or her mind can
imagine, with photography artists need to be more ‘realistic’. ” The
artist his free to draw himself in any style, in order to represent his
psychological/emotional features, in the piece. In a way, self-portraits
are actually the oldest version of the selfie. In conclusion, a portrait
refers to any painting that represents a human figure, a self-portrait
refers to a painting that represents the artist that produced it, with his
own ‘style’.
Why do artists make self-portraits?
To explore themes and ideas in their artwork
-Self portraits can also be used for a series exploring various
compositions with underlying meaning, such as the exploration of the
artist’s self.
Record the artist’s self
-Self portraits can also be used to record the way the artist looked at
the time the portrait was made.
Practice
-Self portraits help artists practice. The more an artist can practice the
best. The human form is a pretty complex subject to tackle, so the
more practice, the better.
A Convenient Model
-It’s common for artists to draw from life, which means using models.
Hired models can be pricy, and that expense can add up, so drawing from
life by looking in a mirror is a lot cheaper. Also, making self portraits
is really convenient – you can always pose for yourself whenever you want
to, while hiring models or having someone pose for you means you’ll have
to figure out scheduling.
Fig. 6 How artists explore identity
This short film that I found on YouTube have truly help me a lot on
understanding of reveal our own life experienced or personality in our
artwork. In this video it introduce 3 different famous artists with
investigate how they express ideas about identity in their own artwork.
After watching this video, I could observe that how famous painters explore
the portraits with their own unique style and technique. For instants, Frida
Kahlo create her own self portrait with her own reality and response to
life.
Firstly, I started by discovering more about myself by taking the
personality tests. From the test result, I knew that I'm an advocate
(INFJ-T). I'm pretty surprised that the information about my strength and
weakness in this test is quite accurate. I feel like the test has know me
better than I know myself. Throughout this result, it helps me discover my
inner self, and I can have an in-depth understanding of my own problems and
come up with a solution to accomplish life goals.
Fig. 7 My Personalities
Here are some explanations about my personality.
Compassionate
With their strong sense of intuition and emotional understanding, INFJs
can be soft-spoken and empathetic. This does not mean that they are
pushovers, however. They have deeply held beliefs and an ability to act
decisively to get what they want.
True introverts
INFJs are sometimes called "extroverted introverts" or even ambiverts.
They get this nickname because they can be passionate, enthusiastic, and
talkative when in the presence of someone they feel comfortable with.
Likewise, when they're fighting for a cause they believe in — like asking
people to sign a petition to end animal abuse — they may come across as
extroverts. However, INFJs are true introverts who prefer a small circle
of friends to a large network of casual acquaintances. And introverts, by
definition need plenty of downtimes to recharge their batteries.
Sensitive to conflict
INFJs have a strong need for harmony in their relationships. They're
always striving to build rapport with others — and they value people who
do the same in return. When conflict arises, especially in close
relationships, the sensitive and emotional INFJ may become extremely
distressed. They may have trouble sleeping or concentrating, perhaps even
feeling the stress of the conflict physically in their bodies through
headaches, muscle aches, an upset stomach, etc.
The Cost of Success
At times, Advocates may focus so intently on their ideals that they don't
take care of themselves. Advocates may feel that they aren't allowed to
rest until they've achieved their unique vision of success, but this
mindset can lead to stress and burnout. If this happens, people with this
personality type may find themselves feeling uncharacteristically
ill-tempered.
Then, I tried to make a mind map about myself by gathering all sort of
information from the personality test, my family opinion, my friends and
how I see myself.
Fig. 8 A Mind Map of myself
At first, I was still unsure how to convey my identity in my own
self-portrait, so I began by searching and studying how those famous
artists express their own story and personality. Then, I found that some
pieces of amazing self-portraits created by Pablo Picasso have inspired me
a lot. After viewing his self-portrait from his early works to the later
works, I observed that he made a progressive abstraction process that
shows how he built his artistic style. I so admire how he was breaking the
rules and perfectly capable of drawing mesmerizing, realistic portraits
but still chose to rely on what looked like a character from a fever
dream.
Fig. 9 Self-portrait by Picasso when he's 15 years old (early works
based on his visuals)
Fig. 10 Self-portrait by Picasso when he's 85 years old (later works
based on his feelings)
For this project 1, I decided to do an abstract style of a self-portrait as
I doesn't want my artwork to look real like me. I prefer drawing in the way
of similar, but not all of it is me. Besides, I planned on doing something
different, I wanted to try a style of traditional manner which is an oil
painting style that I had never tried before.
With all of the thoughts combined, I try to visualize them all in my
artwork. I come up with this first sketch. I decided to play fun with my
features by using creative and abstract ways to express my physical trait,
and it also shows how I see myself in my mind. This self-portrait has shown
how others see me which I have an oblong face, look very tall, skinny,
single eyelid, long shape eyes and a thin lip.
Fig. 11 Sketches
To make it more attractive, I wanted to make my artworks that incorporate
flowers, so I decided to use a series of flowers to represent my hair as I'm
a person who supremely loves nature and flowers. Besides, I came up with an
idea from one of my daily habits: I usually wear earrings all the time. So I
drew an earing on it with a design of a snake as from the above mind map, I
wrote down that my Chinese zodiac is snake.
Fig. 12 Sketches
Next, I attempt on giving colour on the figure.
Fig. 13 Colouring
Moving on, I decided to recolour that part of flowers to make it more
harmonious and attractive.
Fig. 14 recolour the flowers
When it came to designing the background for my artwork, I wanted to use
two colours that complementary each other and have the meaning behind
them. So, I decided to separate it in half by using a blue colour tone on
one side and a yellow colour tone on the other side. The purpose of
painted blue on one side is blue association with depression, and sadness
is also pervasive, and deep blue is a harbinger of night and darkness. In
contrast, the right part is painted yellow as it symbolizes happiness,
warmth and sunshine.
Fig. 16 Colouring the background
I added some colour for the eyes with opposite colour with the
background, this indicates the downside of me which I'm a pessimistic
person as whatever the things that I think or plan all the times, will
happen opposite to that. It's happening most of the time. I even doubt
myself is that any curse on me.
Fig. 15 Colouring the eyes
Besides, I added some scribble art to the background. Scribble art is a
drawing composed of random and abstract lines, the result is a very
loosely drawn, sketchy artwork. The purpose of using this art style for
the background is because I don't want the background to be overpowering
than the figure and make the viewer fill in gaps to perceive the complete
object and meaning of it. I drew a spider, vegetable and a low battery
symbol in the blue part as these are sort of the things that I dislike and
fear with. On the other hand, the yellow parts will show what the things
that make me happy: I enjoy travelling, listening to music, and watching
movies.
During the consultation with Mr Charles, I have shown him the sketches of my
self-portrait and explained what each element represent. Mr Charles stated
that my works are very interesting, and he quite liked my expression and the
idea of using the flower to represent hair. However, Mr Charles asked me to
take note of the background, make sure that the background colouring style
doesn't overpower the human figure. And also the important use of the line
weight and the edges to make it contrast for the figure and background.
Lastly, Mr Charles also said that my works remind him of an artist- Frida
Kahlo, famous for her self-portrait.
Fig. 18 Project 1: self portrait - Final Outcome in JPG
Fig. 19 Project 1: Self-Portrait - Final Outcome in PDF
Rationale:
For this self-portrait, it shows how she wants to communicate an emotion,
personality trait or message to the viewer and create a piece of artwork
that others can relate to. She was not painting a realistic image of
herself, but she drew lots of interest by using many symbolic elements to
express her feelings. The self-portrait of herself might be linked to a
precise moment in her life, the natural elements used in the painting the
face and the background are the key to observing what is hidden in her mind.
In addition, she engages the viewer directly with the bright and colourful
colour of the human figure to make it stand out in the whole composition.
What fascinates part is that this self-portrait shows the contrast between
the apparent calm of her face and the abstract line of the scribble art
behind her. There's a contrast between the complicated background and the
expression of her face so still and restrained. It appears that the artist
is imposing strict discipline on herself, which however explodes in her way
of painting. One of the subtler aspects of this artwork is that the object
in the background of the self-portrait isn't immediately obvious to notice.
She wants viewers to remain and observe themselves to get the overall
intent.
Design Principles used in this project:
Symmetrical balance: the use of approximate symmetry in this artwork. The
natural elements used on either side of a compositional axis are similar
in shape and colour, but they are not exactly mirror images of one
another.
Harmony: the series of flowers repeatedly used to represent the hair gives
a sense of a theme to the viewers and pulls the overall look together. The
piece uses various colours and different types of flowers to avoid a
monotonous feel.
Contrast: the use of blue and yellow colour as the background can be
defined as complementary colours, this will create the strongest contrast
for those two colours. Besides, the meaning of the scribble art also had a
sense of contrast (things I like and dislike).
Emphasis: The use of bright, colourful colour to make the portrait stand
out and emphasize more between the figure and background. This also
emphasizes more the portrait that's in the middle of the composition
Gestalt principle of closure: used a scribble art style in the background,
the viewer observes the incomplete shape object and their mind will fill
in the blanks and make a complete image, then perceive the object by
themselves.
This self-portrait exercise has let me find out more about myself and
express my own identity in an artwork. It's a good opportunity to create
our own self-portrait using symbols, knowing more about ourselves and
finding the best way to portray ourselves. Although the process of this
drawing is quite challenging for me as this is the first time that I have
attempted to draw an oil paint style digitally. Initially, my plan was to
explore traditional oil painting medium, but due to the short timeframe,
I'm afraid that I can't manage to buy all material and painting in a short
time. Then, I decided to do it digitally, but I still struggled with
finding the suitable brushes and canvas texture. When I started out with
painting, I knew nothing, so I had no rules and no expectations. I was
just doing it the way kids do things because it felt right. However, I
feel I still have room for improvement in my drawing, colouring technique,
and expression. Throughout this project, I have a lot of fun, and I felt
myself grow mentally and practically in creating an
artwork.
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