Project # 3 Alternative Self-Portrait

Tonight we'll discuss our next out of class project. This project will be unique in that no two drawings will be alike, such as the food or the perspective. We'll be exploring alternative self-portraits, not to be confused with a self-portrait that involves a likeness of your physical appearance. This will involve creating a drawing of the things in your life that address something about who you are, your likes, dislikes, passions, fetishes. It may involve memorabilia or things that you've collected over the years.

Tana Tidd is very much involved with horses, and is particularly passionate about riding. She did this drawing of the "tackle" hanging on the side of a barn.

Jessica Hagedorn was a student athlete in high school and created this drawing of some of the memorabilia from those experiences.

This response was by Gilbert Garcilazo, who was very much involved with on-line gaming. He brought into class the things that he used in that activity and we shot photos, such as the one below. I though he did a very good job with the project, and especially seeing the subtle refections in the computer screen.

So you see from the above examples, there are many ways to visually express something about who we are without saying what we look like (we'll be getting into that soon enough). Alternative self-portraits can be both fun and challenging at the same time, especially when you think about the parts of your life that can be expressed through images. Our critique will be 19 days from today, plenty of time to say, "this is me."