How is this artwork about who you are or what you like?
Being a self portrait it's my representation of how I see myself, so it's really colorful and out there psychedelic feel with a goofy expression. There's lots of color contrast to get the lights and darks while being light hearted and funny.
Did your work take an unexpected turn due to a mistake or did something happen that was unplanned?
The lips and mouth area in the beginning was very muddy with color and I didn't like how it looked so I erased all of it and started over being very careful to not get it muddy again and making the lips more full so it was proportional to the rest of the expression.
Did you find inspiration from another artist or culture?
My inspiration for using colors in this was came from a couple of pieces I saw by Nikos Gyftakis where he had these really crazy expressive faces with lots of color and lines, it struck a cord with me because I love using color and it was used in such an interesting way that it inspired me to have a crazy color palette as well.
Being a self portrait it's my representation of how I see myself, so it's really colorful and out there psychedelic feel with a goofy expression. There's lots of color contrast to get the lights and darks while being light hearted and funny.
Did your work take an unexpected turn due to a mistake or did something happen that was unplanned?
The lips and mouth area in the beginning was very muddy with color and I didn't like how it looked so I erased all of it and started over being very careful to not get it muddy again and making the lips more full so it was proportional to the rest of the expression.
Did you find inspiration from another artist or culture?
My inspiration for using colors in this was came from a couple of pieces I saw by Nikos Gyftakis where he had these really crazy expressive faces with lots of color and lines, it struck a cord with me because I love using color and it was used in such an interesting way that it inspired me to have a crazy color palette as well.