Self-portrait

A self-portrait by nature is an introspective experience, allowing the creator to examine, form, view, and experience oneself. It’s a mechanism of developing and explaining personal character to an audience, but more importantly, to the author. The composition of self-portrait has little or no restrictions, allowing creative freedom to release one’s work. Another essential is the symbolism, which mirrors the composition in that’s it’s open-ended and capable of being non-literal. In response to these personal definitions I’ve titled my self-portrait, “Pursuit.”

The portrait’s materials in the making of included standard computer paper, a pencil, and a black Sharpie. The process implemented was the traditional methods of connect the dots, in where I numbered my image and then began to draw with pencil, later darkening it with a black Sharpie. Visually it displays shoeprints stepping and walking from the left to right end of the paper in a non-linear way helping to suggest my personality. This piece echoes to me in a manner that creates a basic external image of myself that lets me chew over my traits, and picking up things I wouldn’t otherwise without the aid of the image. This being said, I’m happy with the work and the success of its goal to explain and imply me as a whole.

This self-portrait purveys its meaning from both the title and the imagery of the work, which in summary is the chase for all things new and adventure. Now while this pursuit includes establishing friends, it includes less tangible things such as knowledge, truth, wisdom, experience, success, and so forth. But the piece isn’t about end games but rather the steps to achieve those goals and the gains from working your way their. This description relates to my concepts and key character traits of independence, curiosity, and dabbling.