Self Portrait

Self Portrait

He was brought into this world by two people who just could not quite find a way to make things work. From a young age he had noticed that life was not normal for him compared to his peers; he was often confused and questioning what was going on. He always gives off happy and humorous vibes to the people surrounding him but he knows thats just a cover up. When he is alone things are much deeper and not as warm. He often finds himself covering up his emotions with smiles and jokes. He enjoys being around others and interacting with his friends to be happy but at the same time he also likes to just be alone and think at times.

Artist Statement

       

 I chose to draw an image of myself smiling because it gives the person viewing the image a good representation of how I look throughout the day. I chose to draw to express my goofy personality I have when around others, I am not a good drawer so it really shows my goofy side. I am often smiling and appearing as if I’m happy and having a good time so nobody would ever assume that I am an unhappy individual. I chose to use color in my self-portrait because it brings out the image to the viewers, also I used happy colors representing my outside appearance to the world and the people around me. The happy colors meant to give off positive and happy vibes.

       The bottom half of the image I shaded grey to express my inside emotions and how I really feel, it is meant to give off dull and kind of depressing vibes to leave the viewer questioning why I chose to do so. In the story I wrote to go along with my image, I explained my childhood and the negative things I have gone through to show why I might not be the happiest individual on the inside. I did not write this to gain sympathy from anyone because I do not want any. I wrote it to simply connect with the reader/viewer on a personal level and also just be open and honest about myself.

 I feel like my image and paper went together very well because the image expressed my overall appearance to the public and how I come off to everyone viewing me. The story I wrote to go along with it described the meaning of the picture and color choice I used and really just summed up my overall emotions. I feel like I did a good job at expressing my emotions this way because I feel like a lot of people whether they want to admit it or not can connect on a very personal level with what I wrote. I feel like this is a very common thing for people to do. People often find themselves being insecure on the inside but not wanting to show weakness to their peers surrounding them. Also, a lot of people are fine when they are with other people having a good time and not having doubts; but once they are alone they find their minds pondering and constantly overthinking things and it can get to be too much. You never know what is going on in someone’s life so don’t judge them on how they appear cause odds are things are completely opposite.