Us and Them

What is a portrait?

The definition of a portrait is: A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant, with the intent to display the likeness of the person. Not necessarily a direct likeness, but it could be their personality or through things they like, something that shows that person. 

To begin our new project which was titled Us and Them we first selected a partner and interviewd them to gain greater knowledge about them. After this we took some images, one a normal portrait and the next to try and capture their personality. 

Then later in the day after drawing a few initial line drawings we created a wire drawing of our partner. I think mine worked quite well. I didn't want to make my drawing too detailed so I just emphasised the hair in my piece.

On the second day we made images out of collage to show our partners personality and emphasise certain details. Then in the afternoon we created long paintings collages of different things we noticed about the person. We also created 3-D sculptures of our partner. I created a mask, putting in a bow as she likes bows and doing cat eyes and whiskers to show features of a lion, which was the animal she picked that she would most like to be.