Title: I see you (Self Portrait)
Semester/Year: Fall 2023
Program Used: Illustrator
I wanted to use something simple, and cool but also somewhat personal. I used stippling rather than gradients for some shadows, I felt that it gave it some texture which I found attractive then the sharpness vectors gave off. I created most of the stippling using Image Trace, but everything else were just shapes. My inspiration came from some of my favorite characters growing up, their attitudes edged on cynicism, seeing the world like a passive observer.
Title: (Head in the clouds) Self Portrait Collage
Semester/Year: Fall 2023
Program Used: Photoshop
This work was a collage, I used masking to try to give the illusion of depth and make the subject seem natural in the environment. Most of the inspiration was from using themes prevalent in hip hop culture and reimagining it in an ironic way. Although the theme I was going for was somewhat encompassed in the work I feel like the black and whiteness gave it a subdued feeling which felt right in this composition.
“Photo of Lightning” Philippe Donn. Pexels. May 25, 2018 https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-lightning-1114690/
“Photo of Lightning” Aleksandar Pasaric. Pexels. February 18th, 2017 https://www.pexels.com/photo/view-of-cityscape-325185/
