Creative Self Portrait
In this self portrait, I feature two sides of myself, the part that is openly displayed to others and the parts of me that are a little bit harder to see at first glance. On the left side, I wrote a letter about myself, detailing out things that popped in my head as defining character traits (however obscure they may have seemed). I then used this text and warped it in the outline of my face, and then added on a few of my defining facial features. However, I did not depict my eyes on the left side, choosing instead to represent them on the right with the blue/grey splotch; each hue in the gradient taken from two different pictures of my eyes in different lighting. Because eyes are often referred to as “the windows of the soul,” I decided to place them on the right side of this image as a sort of bridge between the two sides. The second abstract image on the right side is done in the colors of the bisexual flag. Other small details tha...


