Project Statement
Portrait including many shapes formed in the shadow of the concept words “Organized” and “Chaotic.” The duality between these two words gave a challenge to overcome that resulted in a wide array of shapes and styles in the single composition. There was a personal goal to create a heavily graphical and comic-like style so that got pushed a lot in my process. The grouping of color ended up happening after a lot of experimentation and theoretical testing to find an aesthetic choice that would suit the final concept. There was also a push to incorporate the idea of “Organized Chaos” as a sort of grounding point for the shapes. and formation of the form as a whole.
Process
View detailed project process at Inventive Portraiture: Process
Reflection
There was an exercise in contour lines that heavily influenced the final outcome and let me have some depth and a sense of space that would otherwise be difficult to obtain through a soft shading method. I completely scrapped my first “final” because I entirely didn’t like it and wanted to create a much more abstract piece, as shown in the actual final composition. I developed a lot of ideas and things I really wouldn’t have stumbled across under other circumstances and am pretty thankful to have made such a mistake and having to restart. Doing it over from scratch let me reformulate my thought process and find a new direction that I could enjoy working from, and from that redirection I ended up with a final composition that is personally my favorite project outcome.