- Multimedia(If the photo is suitable to be drawn with mixed medium)
- Technology (Picture should be altered using technological devices before drawing)
Photo of self, no one else - Express self (It should represent me)
- Portrait should not be too crazy – people should be able to identify the picture
- Use medium that are related to myself, or represent myself
- Medium should be able to handle (for example, sugar will be hard to create and fix it after I’m done)
Image of picnik.com website
As soon as I start working on my design, I tried using a website called ‘picnik.com’ (http://www.picnik.com/). This website is similar to the Adobe Photoshop, but it’s much easier to use the functions. Even though I did not spend a lot of time on decorating my picture, I was able to create some awesome designs.
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his is my first design. I used round edges, snow, duo tone, posterize and neon effects. When I saw the posterize effect, I wanted to make my photo to be graphical and sort of abstract. After I ‘posterized’ my picture, I wanted to make the colors to be simple and I chose two colors that contrast each other well: green and brown. Green is one of my favorite colors and it is known as the healing color since it makes people’s mind to be calm. I used neon lights to make show the edges clearly. I really like how I put the snow effect. Even though the picture became kind of messy after the snow effect, it matches with the pose I’m taking in the picture and it adds a fantastical look to my picture. This design follows some of my design specifications. First of all, it is a photo of me, and it expresses me such as using my favorite color for the background. I used internet to decorate it. Also, I believe the picture is not very wild and people would be able to recognize that it’s a person’s figure. Since I did not decide what material to use for the portrait, I do not have very specific ideas about materials. However, I think for the snow effect, I may use rice to give the snowy look. I can also use paints, and other traditional and non-traditional art sources to create the portrait. One thing I don’t like about this design is that I used round edge effect. I don’t know why I decided to make my photo with round edges, but I think it could’ve looked better without this type of edges. If I’m going to choose this design, I’m not going to make my edges round but straight.
This is my second design. Unlike design 1, it looks very abstract. I used hypnotic, duo tone, focal zoom and text effects for this picture. I really like the duo tone effect and I used it again for this picture. However, if design 1’s duo tone shows dark parts with dark brown and light parts with green, I switched over the colors for this design. So dark parts have very light green and light parts have black color. Because I changed the colors, my face looked very funny especially my teeth because they are black and glowing with light green colors. The picture looked like an x-ray film. I used focal zoom effect to emphasize my face so other parts were a little blurry than my face. After I used those two effects, I thought the picture is very similar to my first design. So I searched for some unique effects on the website and I found this hypnotic effect. After I used this effect, my picture got distorted a lot and I couldn’t find my face but my top of head and there were many hands. I think this represents that inside of my mind, there are lots of crazy thoughts and expressions of myself. I thought this image reminds me a word ‘illusion’ because it looked very mysterious and fantastical. That’s why I decided put the word ‘illusion’ on the picture. I like this design a lot and I think this design is more creative than the first design, but I figured out it doesn’t follow many design specifications. Even though it is a portrait of me and it represents my personality, I think it is hard to be recognized by others that this is an image of me. The hands are covering my face and even I can’t recognize where my face is. Furthermore, I don’t think I can use different sources to create the portrait. The design is very complicated and there are too many colors so it will be hard to describe the same for the hand-drawn portrait. I do not think I’m going to use this design as my chosen final one. 
Image of photofunia.com website
After I did these two designs, I went to another photo altering website called ‘photofunia.com’ (http://www.photofunia.com/). This website is different to the previous one. If picnic.com was more like decorating only the photo itself, photofunia.com is adjusting my photo into real-life images. I think this website is also an interesting one and I made several designs from here.
As you can see, my picture is drawn on a wall by someone else in this design. It is a graffiti version of picture. Three are some other graffiti drawings next to my picture. I think my image on the wall is very similar to picnik.com’s ‘posterize’ effect. The picture is not portrayed with details but like an image from a poster. It looks more abstract than the original one. I think it is a very creative idea to put myself as a graffiti image, but I think this design is not very suitable in order to create a portrait. Basically, I used a photo of myself; however, this doesn’t show any of my personalities. I created this design just because I like graffiti. Also the picture includes some other images such as the graffiti painter, and some other drawings near my picture. Because of these features, it sort of looks like the male painter is the main character and I’m just an image drawn by him. Maybe I can get some ideas that I can add some graffiti designs on my portrait from this picture, but I don’t think this will be my chosen design as well.
This is another design using photofunia.com website. My picture is sh
own at a big business or shopping center, or at a station as an advertisement picture. When I see this picture, I feel like I’m a famous model from a fashion brand. I like how the picture is divided into small square glass or tiles. Also the people under my picture create this picture is not purposely made, but as if it was already there and make natural look. Nevertheless, like the previous design, it doesn’t represent me either. Since there are so many other figures in the picture, it’s sort of hard to say that the picture is mainly focused on me and I think the design will look very complicated after I trace it on a paper. But I am able to get a good idea from this design which is I can use the mosaic method when I create my portrait. Each mosaic piece is from the whole picture of myself and it represents a memory or a part of my characteristic.
This is my last design and I think it is very similar to the first design’s duotone effect. There are same pictures of me in different types of colors. I think this design is the best form with using photofunia.com website. The picture is like my pictures are shown in an exhibition. This design reminds me of Andy Warhol, a famous pop artist. The colors used for each picture implies some characteristics of me. For example the blue one represents the coldness or being rational. The red one means being angry or passionate. If there weren’t people in front of the pictures, I think the picture could’ve looked better. I think if I draw this picture bigger for the portrait, it will be an interesting picture to use with mixed media.
The final design that I chose is the first design. I think my first design fits to most of the design specifications and the picture only includes an image of me without any background. The photofunia.com used designs have a background with people or other architecture which is not very suitable in order to create a portrait. Also, the picture is not very complicated and crazy so I think people will be able to notice that it is a portraiture artwork. Like I wrote before, since this is going to be my chosen design, I’m going to fix the edges of the design into straight edges. From now on, I should start thinking about what materials I should use for the portrait. I think the create process will be very interesting and I’m sure that I’ll enjoy doing this project.
As you can see, my picture is drawn on a wall by someone else in this design. It is a graffiti version of picture. Three are some other graffiti drawings next to my picture. I think my image on the wall is very similar to picnik.com’s ‘posterize’ effect. The picture is not portrayed with details but like an image from a poster. It looks more abstract than the original one. I think it is a very creative idea to put myself as a graffiti image, but I think this design is not very suitable in order to create a portrait. Basically, I used a photo of myself; however, this doesn’t show any of my personalities. I created this design just because I like graffiti. Also the picture includes some other images such as the graffiti painter, and some other drawings near my picture. Because of these features, it sort of looks like the male painter is the main character and I’m just an image drawn by him. Maybe I can get some ideas that I can add some graffiti designs on my portrait from this picture, but I don’t think this will be my chosen design as well.
This is another design using photofunia.com website. My picture is sh
own at a big business or shopping center, or at a station as an advertisement picture. When I see this picture, I feel like I’m a famous model from a fashion brand. I like how the picture is divided into small square glass or tiles. Also the people under my picture create this picture is not purposely made, but as if it was already there and make natural look. Nevertheless, like the previous design, it doesn’t represent me either. Since there are so many other figures in the picture, it’s sort of hard to say that the picture is mainly focused on me and I think the design will look very complicated after I trace it on a paper. But I am able to get a good idea from this design which is I can use the mosaic method when I create my portrait. Each mosaic piece is from the whole picture of myself and it represents a memory or a part of my characteristic.
This is my last design and I think it is very similar to the first design’s duotone effect. There are same pictures of me in different types of colors. I think this design is the best form with using photofunia.com website. The picture is like my pictures are shown in an exhibition. This design reminds me of Andy Warhol, a famous pop artist. The colors used for each picture implies some characteristics of me. For example the blue one represents the coldness or being rational. The red one means being angry or passionate. If there weren’t people in front of the pictures, I think the picture could’ve looked better. I think if I draw this picture bigger for the portrait, it will be an interesting picture to use with mixed media.
The final design that I chose is the first design. I think my first design fits to most of the design specifications and the picture only includes an image of me without any background. The photofunia.com used designs have a background with people or other architecture which is not very suitable in order to create a portrait. Also, the picture is not very complicated and crazy so I think people will be able to notice that it is a portraiture artwork. Like I wrote before, since this is going to be my chosen design, I’m going to fix the edges of the design into straight edges. From now on, I should start thinking about what materials I should use for the portrait. I think the create process will be very interesting and I’m sure that I’ll enjoy doing this project.
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