{"id":22280,"date":"2023-02-17T12:12:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T17:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=22280"},"modified":"2023-02-16T21:30:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T02:30:33","slug":"industrious-illustrating-30-self-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/02\/17\/industrious-illustrating-30-self-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrious Illustrating #30 &#8211; Self Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While most of what I post is related to freelance work, commercial art, illustration, etc., I do also enjoy drawing from observation to learn from and reinterpret what I see around myself. Just as I try to find visual solutions to questions and problems (what would a giant military robot engineered from a construction model look like?) through stylization, I also try to find ways to convey information about the real world in the most efficient and expressive ways possible. Which is to say, for the self-portraits I&#8217;ve made for class over the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve simplified my features and the shadows on my body down to express what I&#8217;m seeing and feeling in the moment, rather than committing a photorealistic representation to paper. The self-portraits are shown below, starting from the earliest to the most recent (drawn last week).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22282\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230116_201048-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230116_201048-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230116_201048-768x962.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230116_201048-818x1024.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22281\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230123_224308-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230123_224308-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230123_224308-768x961.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230123_224308-818x1024.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/> \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22283\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230130_194311-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230130_194311-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230130_194311-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22284\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230206_221841-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230206_221841-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230206_221841-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22285\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230213_224208-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230213_224208-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230213_224208-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Out of all of these, I like the most recent one the most because it looks the most developed and thoughtfully realized. It also helps that it was at the largest scale (18&#215;24&#8243;) and on the nicest drawing paper I own (Strathmore 400 series), whereas the others were at 9&#215;12&#8243; at the largest and drawn on mediocre drawing paper or mixed media sketch paper. The quality of materials really does matter for traditional art, which is both a major annoyance (supply costs add up very, very fast) and an interesting limiting factor (making the most of the given materials is immensely satisfying to me).<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve been pretty busy with schoolwork and making game assets for &#8220;Flamechaser&#8221; lately (we&#8217;re releasing the 0.58 build soon with an expanded story and more complete visuals\/animation\/sound effects), I&#8217;m also going to try to find time to make watercolor and oil paintings again, either stylized or observed from life. Having to draw people from life on a regular basis has reawakened my interest in traditional art, and my improvement over a few weeks of study feels promising for what I could do if I practice my traditional painting skills more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most of what I post is related to freelance work, commercial art, illustration, etc., I do also enjoy drawing from observation to learn from and reinterpret what I see around myself. Just as I try to find visual solutions to questions and problems (what would a giant military robot engineered from a construction model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2255,"featured_media":20547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1983,1597,1996,1922,1854,1985,980,1995],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22288,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280\/revisions\/22288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}