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College Work: My Self Portrait

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This is the recent weird project that I was required to be done with these few weeks, and it's only for this term...

The topic: Self Portrait with Surrealism influence... Or something like that...

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RATIONALE OF ARTWORK:
This is my self interpretation of myself. I considered myself to be like that of a Grim Reaper. This is because I was a trouble-maker for as long as I could remember, and most of all of the things that I do/did will affect the people around me, mostly negatively, literally.

Below are the interpretations of this work...

- The reason of putting a fashionized border is to signify my constant need to retrieve into my own little world of imagination, and once I went in, I wouldn't want to come out.
- The short yet bright scythe symbolizes my actions that I've done and of those that I cannot be undone, most of which are my methods of creating chaos to the people I know, even if those actions are good-intentioned.
Many things that I've done reaps unwanted things e.g. disappointment and depression.
- The dark wings behind that figure symbolizes my good side being overshadowed by my other side that's actually celebrate anarchy.
- The glowing 'stars' around the picture is actually remnants of my past and my future being interwined together in smallest possible way. These remnants are always connected to my actions (scythe), yet, I have the great power to control my own fate.
However it's a matter of choice of my own.
- Why graveyard? This is a quiet place of which the type of silence that I've got used to due to my past when I was often ostracized by people around me except my family, or perhaps it's me myself who often find peace with myself by being alone all the time. Or perhaps its both reasons.
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The one I did with Illustrator last term... Boy... I seriously wanna REDO it ALL over... XDDD But that's gonna take me a while... XDDD I feel like laughing my head off... :psychotic:

Anyway, this didn't took me a long time since that I got help from good StockArt available here in DA =3 I did my best with a bit pf rendering and good old brush tricks... =3

And it's all thanks to:
Background wallpaper - :iconanarasha-stock: - [link]
(High resolution) Cemetery picture - :iconmjranum-stock: - [link]
(High resolution) Grim Reaper picture - :iconmjranum-stock: - [link]

Time taken:
Planning - Several minutes
Searching for good photos - Almost eternity
Working progress - I actually had done 2 others with bad low resolution pictures... So overall, it took me more than 2 weeks' time...

I'm pretty disappointed that the final artwork being badly printed out during the project submittion, & I'm not sure what's the problem here... Well, at least they required us to submit .psd file as well...

Hope you guys like it~~ =3

Comments & critics are openly welcomed ^w^

Self Portrait artwork (C) Grace PS Yong 2007 AKA Me...
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Blazincold's avatar
Hmph, not too bad.

FAV!