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Published: 2008-02-16 18:02:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 2030; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 0
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Date completed: February 10, 2008Media: Graphite, Charcoal
This is an interesting twist on a self portrait. For my Drawing & Painting II class, we were to choose an artist or style and create a self portrait based on our choice, using any media.
I chose to model my self portrait after M.C. Escher's Bond of Union piece. It was such an amazing concept, and I love his work.
I started with blank, white paper, obviously. From there, I made a line drawing of my head/face from a mirror. I then sectioned out which strips of my face would be included in the finished product. I erased leftover pencil marks and shaded the sections of my face represented in this drawing. When I finished that step, I shaded the entire background in with a black charcoal pencil. That proved to be very messy and painstaking, but I think it was for the best in the end.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with this self portrait. It's weird, though, because I like to draw people but hate to draw myself.
Anyway, it would be appreciated if you let me know what you think of this! I hope to update this account - with the tons of deviations I just haven't had time to submit - soon.
Thanks for viewing! ^_^
(and Full-view, please!)
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Comments: 31
such a cool concept... i love it!!
its amazing.. turned out brilliantly, x
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Well darling... you know how much I love this piece, I think it's one of the best self portraits you've ever done. It not only portrays your physical self, but a lot of your personality as well. VERY nicely done hun.
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Wow - thank you very much for featuring me!
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Very nicely done and that is a really interesting idea. I've never seen anything like it before and I really like it. I noted ~liviticus said that a "torn" look would have been perhaps better, but I really like it as it is with the parts omitted rather than torn apart.
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Wow, thats really spectacular, it's pretty scary in a way, but in total, it is just really amazing, you've really made something unique here, congrats!
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it would have been a cool idea to have "torn" the head apart, but what you did is much more like escher's drawing(i think it's a woman, and done in kind of a reddish pink), so i think you accomplished your goal nicely. great job
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That would have been neat... but yes, I did try to stay closer to what Escher portrayed in "The Rind" and "Bond of Union."
Thank you very much!
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Oh wow! That looks amazing!!! 
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Concept is awsome! .. But I feel that you should have "torn" the head apart instead of "missout" on some parts. It would have given a more "realistic" effect or so .. Well, even though that's not what you where looking for, I feel it would be more suiting for a "torn appart" face ^^ ..
Still, it's an awsome drawing! 
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Thanks! That's a really cool suggestion, maybe I'll try it out in the future! ^_^
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Do that ^^ .. Looking forward to it
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Super awesomeness in a can!, er...ribbon!
Great job !
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