{"id":387,"date":"2025-10-28T19:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/alyna\/?p=387"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:43:06","slug":"self-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/alyna\/self-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In sophomore year, I took a class on drawing and composition that required all students to create a 30\u201dx44\u201d self portrait. For this piece, I knew I wanted to include fabric as a prominent feature. I was thinking about clothing as an expression of gender at the time and wanted to use fabric as a representation for that. I also opted to wear clothing that I felt represents more of what I want to look like rather than something more \u2018everyday\u2019. I took two main reference photos for this piece: one of me holding the cloth and the other of the fabric bunched into a twist pattern. I printed out both photos, then cut the image of myself out to put on top of the spiral background. Since this piece was so big, I opted to use the materials I was most comfortable with: graphite pencils, though I did attempt to use pencils of different hardness, which I hadn\u2019t really done before. In order to accurately recreate the finer details within my reference images, I used a grid. I also tried a slightly different style \u2013 accentuating angles and drawing minimal curves \u2013 which I think I like. I found one of the hardest parts of this piece was detaching from what I <em>think<\/em> something looks like and what it <em>actually<\/em> looks like. The grid method certainly helped, but in smaller areas of the face, I turned the reference image upside down in order to try and see more of the shapes. I think this piece is overwhelmingly successful. There are a million details that I could go back and continue to fix but I think I\u2019m happy with the piece as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In sophomore year, I took a class on drawing and composition that required all students to create a 30\u201dx44\u201d self portrait. For this piece, I knew I wanted to include fabric as a prominent feature. I was thinking about clothing as an expression of gender at the time and wanted to use fabric as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artwork","category-schoolwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/alyna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/alyna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/alyna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/alyna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/alyna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/alyna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/alyna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/alyna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/alyna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/alyna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/alyna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}