Self-Portraits

Young Knight in a Landscape 1510

Vittore Carpaccio | Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza

The Apparition of Christ to the People (The Apparition of the Messiah)1837 - 1857

Aleksander Ivanov | The State Tretyakov Gallery

Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine-Habsbourg, queen of France, and her children 1787

Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun | Palace of Versailles

1. I went with the theme of “fighting”, but not in the sense of violence but fighting for what you believe in, fighting for the people in your life that you love and aid you and yourself. When you look into a self-portrait of yourself you see your family, which is the biggest fight in you, and you see resemblance of your parents, siblings, grandparents and you fight for them.

2. I choose to try myself with pencil on white paper because I believe it would be easier for me to show my detail and to be I can manipulate using the pencil the best.

3. The biggest challenge that I faced in creating my self-portrait was the details of the eyes and also the light shade of bread that I had. It wasn’t fully grown in but was still there.

4. This isn’t just me, its my family and everything we represent and what we fight for. To be there is a little of everyone of my family in me and that what helps me be motivated and push further and fight.

5. I used the element of shape, color, value. Principles: scale, balance.

6. I did enjoy doing this project, but one thing that I found weird and hard to do was creating the self-portrait. Its the first time that I have ever drawn myself and trying to focus was the hardest part.

7. I like my final work, I believe it could have been better. I think I could have created the shapes of my eyes, head etc, could have been done better to make it more realistic.