Based on an initial selfie taken, I created this charcoal self-portrait that aims to utilise and experiment with this medium through exploring both extreme light and shadow. I believe I have successfully done so, as well as exploring charcoal\u2019s textural abilities \u2013 creating a striking and dominating self-portrait that people subsequently commented reminded them of Lucien Freud\u2019s portraits. In fact, I had set out to purposefully not actively make myself appear as flattering as possible \u2013 instead creating raw and emotive portrait, with a rather uncomfortable angle, with the viewer having to strenuously look upwards, with my nostrils being the focal point!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I took a somewhat unique approach to the assignment, deciding to base my colour palette on both my split complementary neutral planar portrait (from my Adobe Illustrator portraits (based on my charcoal portrait)), whilst also incorporating various colour features from my master colour analysis planar portrait. This choice was as a result of there being a fantastic range of colour variations in my more neutral portrait, but then me also wanting to include my striking deep red background from my master portrait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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My thought process and understanding of colour drastically changed during this process. Having barely done any painting before, it was extraordinary to me to realise just how many infinite opportunities there are to create completely unique colours through merely mixing four colours \u2013 in my case, red, blue, yellow and white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Furthermore, this portrait’s colours could even be seen as a representation of my personality. Whilst you have the more subdued colours on the actual face, perhaps reflecting how some might say I have a rather ordinary face, the prominent and vivid red background grabs the viewer\u2019s eye and could reflect my internal personality \u2013 daring and bright, and most definitely often hard to forget!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16734,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16731","student-work","type-student-work","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drawing-imaging"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n