energizing tone

Transferring my work digitally was a challenge because this is the first project in which I had to grid a drawing and then transfer it that way. Overall, though, the experience helped me grow the most in the digital arts realm because it forced me to learn about the certain apps that we had to use for the recontextualization. Digitally, I think the artwork is much more difficult to process than the hand-drawn because it’s just a process that I’m not used to yet. Drawing portraits is one of my favorite things, so doing this project was actually quite fun, but it took more time than I thought. 

Energizing tone was a really interesting concept for me to indulge in, and it was a much longer process than just shading the shadows but it helped really bring the pictures to life. The energy that was created through the short marks is such a cool idea, and having it transferred on the 2D subject was what kind of blew my mind. I enjoyed the outcome of the digital work more than the drawing just because it has the appearance of looking more “official” and “finished” to me, but that may just be my opinion. 

I chose to do some portraits because I’ve only done one other portrait, and I didn’t wear any makeup in the picture I chose, so I decided to do a more accurate representation of how I like to present myself. The process of studying my face and transferring it on paper was interesting to me because it forced me to kind of study myself in a way, and see myself in a different light. I enjoyed this project a lot because of that process.