I mostly draw self portraits of people. This is called the side look based on a 1950's woman. For this portrait, I got my inspiration from looking at some old 1950's magazines my grandmother gave me.
I have dipped my artistic interests into the craft of portraits, starting senior year. I gravitate towards creating portraits; as an emerging artist, I believe that it is crucially important to master the concept of drawing faces and the human figure, if one were to dabble in the concept of drawing any human being. Overall, I greatly enjoy creating portraits. The following piece is a self portrait project I have made in last semester's Advanced Art class.
I fall into a deep hole of depression and once I start to find hope something has to ruin it, I will start to feel the slightest glimmer of hope then it crumbles down in front of me yet again. I don’t feel as if I deserve to be sad though. “So many other people have lives much worse than mine.” But if I don’t feel happy… and I’m not sad, what am I? Feeling sad and lost is a completely normal thing. If you are feeling sad, out of place or just need someone to talk to you…