So our first assignment in advanced art is to choose an emotion and create a self portrait showing the emotion we chose. I started by compiling a list of emotions I thought might be interesting to do. I finally decided on confusion, as it's an emotion a lot of people feel, makes an interesting face, and has been something I've been experiencing a lot lately.
I spent the entire first period after we got this assignment just trying to capture the emotion. In the moment, showing confusion is easy. But pretending to be confused to get a picture of yourself is difficult, especially since the emotion needs to be kind of exaggerated.
I finally decided on a picture which kind of looks confused, and kind of looks sad I guess. I'm not really sure, but it works. I started the first draft on the second day to try to practice drawing my face, which isn't something I really ever do. Sure, I've drawn random people out of boredom but I rarely try draw myself. The draft ended up looking fairly good though, so that's good. Alt