Portrait Project No. 8
2009
Note: This image is part of an ongoing series of portraits of my loved ones. Unless otherwise specified in the comments field by the subject of the work, please do not share the name of this person in your commentary; they may not want their name linked with their face. Best, Sara.
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This portrait is different! I mean, besides the breasts. But they’re part of it. Er, obviously.
This drawing is a hold-over from the last time I was doing portraits, almost 2 years ago. When I started the new round of portraits, I realized a) I’d never colored this piece, and b) the subject already thought it was spiffy. Oh, and c) subject has NO good pictures of herself online. (Wtf, subject?)
Er, yes. Besides differences in quality of line and likeness that perhaps only I can see, the key difference is that this portrait had no photo source, unlike the current round. It came from my head, caricature fashion.
Part of me is still convinced that using photos as source material is cheating. Cheating what? I’m not sure. But it’s certainly easier for me to translate photos to paper than it is for me to make my friends sit still long enough to draw them.
Anyway. Glad to be doing more of these, and have about 10 stacked up to finish coloring. More art shall be.
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I think you feel that using photos is cheating because it’s a static image, locking that person into on particular place and time. two-dimensionally, even, so a huge part of the work is “done” for you.
I would imagine that it makes it easier, in some ways, since you don’t have to worry about the subject moving. But at the same time, you lose a lot of the nuance, the life…when you were sketching me, I remember that there was some conversation going on, so you had little micro-expressions flitting across my face as I listened to the conversation. to me, that adds more of the person into the image…there is more room for interperation.
As for my lack of pictures…I take terrible pictures. No, really! I wash out so much in most pictures that I don’t look like myself. I also tend to make odd, strained faces.
If you’d like to help me ammend my lack of pictures…you know where I live.
I’d be honored if you did more sketches of me.
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