My Own Piece of Art.

I've been slacking off ever since Foundation ended last December but I finally managed to bring myself up and do something useful. I've been trying to gain up my drawing skills by drawing portraits of people. I got interested in this ever since I drew a portrait of myself for one of my assignments. I told myself I'm going to draw this one person I admire so much one day and I finally managed to make myself do it. I got worried that it won't look like him but it actually did! So I'm really happy with the result!

His name is Lee Jaehwan, a Korean pop lead singer for the group, VIXX. I've been admiring him for a year now. He's really amazing! and I really love this photoshoot. This photo came out really well and I fell in love. I couldn't help myself but to draw this picture.

I remember I wanted to draw another person I admire, but I didn't have a proper picture of him so I searched for one. I tried drawing it but it didn't came out right. Right there and then, I realized how important your feelings are for a picture, it actually can be a muse for you when you try to draw the exact same photo because I didn't really like the photo I chose to draw that other guy compare to this one.

I've been drawing a few more people but still not completely looking out great compare to this. 

Figure Drawing: Assignment 1 - Explorative Self-Portrait.

We are to draw a self portrait of ourself with adding elements that represents us.

So I was thinking of elements that represents me.

I was thinking of 

• Cats.
• Japanese.
• Korean.
• Music.
• Vintage.

Before drawing the ways I want it to look like.
I practice sketching the things I'm still lacking at.
I tried drawing eye, a cat's nose, a cat's face and sakura (Japanese's flower).
I also thought of adding a Korean/Japanese idioms.

I was thinking of doing a cat's face but with a human eye and mouth.

Then I started creating ideas on how I want it to look like.

The first one is me holding a box filled with stuff I like, so when I open it, everything I like will come out.

Second one is me pouring pink paint and forming a sakura tree with a polaroid frame making it look a bit vintage.

I tried drawing and colouring a sakura tree. Well I tried my best.

Third one is a half human and half cat face with few elements throwing in.

Forth is just me sitting on a moon with a cat beside me, this idea was given by Annabel :3 because I couldn't think of what to do with a star. 

A very incomplete drawing for my fifth one heh. Basically I wanted to make myself lie on a flower? so yeah...

But sad news, this wasn't what Mr. Ernesto wanted. He said "self-portrait darling, with your face." and rejected all of it.

So I sat down and think and came out with a new idea.

As I was Google-ing trying to think of something nice. I saw this on the image search page. I got inspired to do my self-portrait according to this.

Gillian Wearing "Me Now in Mask".

Therefore, I tried to draw a portrait of myself by looking at one of my self-taken picture.

Well it isn't exactly the same as the real picture but everyone who saw this said it does look like me a bit.

I drew this according to the below one but the mouth I tried to follow the above one. Well it somehow looks like me? :D

and I was thinking of using a masquerade mask as one of my elements. So I was inspired by this one and tried doing a sketch of it.

When I showed him this yesterday. He said my idea is good just try adding a different elements to it.

He also gave me an artist name, Salvador Dali, and told me to do research on him since I'm doing a surrealism style for my self-portrait.

F.