For this project we had to do a self portrait and choose between a mechanical, zombie, or expressive theme. I chose to do the zombie one because it sounded like a fun thing to do. In the original sketch for this I had intended to put four eyes on my self portrait, but I then realized I couldn't put a fourth one where I was going to put a ripped jaw. But even after I put in the ripped jaw it looked kind of boring because only a fourth of the face looked ripped up and zombie-like. When I was thinking about what else I could put on my portrait I thought about putting more ripped flesh on it and making it look like it was almost an infection spreading, so I went with that. Another thing I hadn't intended on doing was making the top pair of eyes look like they were glowing green, they were originally supposed to be just black and white to make the colors of the eyes look sort of inverted. The funny thing about why I changed it though was that I had the Danny Phantom theme song stuck in my head so I jokingly put in some green and tried to make it look like they were glowing and it actually worked out and I decided to keep it.
The background was inspired off of my trips in the woods where I've been finding a lot of things like old glass bottles and jars, deer bones, even a bow from a bow and arrow. I was actually going to put in a deer skull but I decided not to because I felt like I already had too much to work on in this one piece alone. I also just really like plants and stuff.
This piece was a lot of fun to color as well, especially my hair. I used a lot of prismacolors for it and I could finally use the metallic gold one.
The background was inspired off of my trips in the woods where I've been finding a lot of things like old glass bottles and jars, deer bones, even a bow from a bow and arrow. I was actually going to put in a deer skull but I decided not to because I felt like I already had too much to work on in this one piece alone. I also just really like plants and stuff.
This piece was a lot of fun to color as well, especially my hair. I used a lot of prismacolors for it and I could finally use the metallic gold one.
(a better picture showing More of the Use of the metalic gOld pencil)
I really like how the metalic gold brought out more color and values in my hair. It actually makes it look more shiny in real life.