For one of my first semester classes as a senior in high school, I chose to take Intro to the Visual Arts. In this class, we cover many of the basic visual arts such as ceramics, line art, color schemes, and self-portraits. This is the final piece for my Self-Portrait Project. It was created with ink on top of a page of a songbook. In the bottom left corner, I highlighted the word “Peace” and tried my best to represent that feeling with my face.
This project was intricate but not very difficult. As an art class, we took pictures of our faces representing our words. We then put our images into black and white and traced around the black parts onto a songbook page using a lightbox. We colored in the dark parts with a pencil and then started the inking process. We inked over our images (we had two copies in case we messed up on one) twice each and then chose the best one. The goal of this project was to contrast dark and light and see how it creates an image.
I really liked this project because I could see my face come together when I penciled and inked in the dark parts of my face. I always look at the light parts of the face because it usually highlights that person’s features but this project caused me to look at the dark parts of the face. I would love to do this project with other images to see parts of other items in life I had never noticed before.