My assignment is to create a pastel and charcoal portrait of myself, but it will be so blurred to where the veiwer knows its a face because of the shape and form. My goal is to use these two elements to create extremly blurred portraits, only recognizable as a face by common areas of shadows and higlights. I will do this by not paying attention to detail and using the ipad to transform my face into one that's blurred.
For my first drafts, I took a photo of myself and used an app to blurr my face. I them turned the ipad upside down so that I wouldn't be focused on drawing my face, but rather focused on the movement of the lines and the hilights and shawdows. I tried to accomplish drawing myself in way so that you only know it's a person but not specifically me. I'd improve by blurring the edges between the dark hair and the skin, to make the change less defined.
Here are my finals of the two blurred portraits. These accomplish my goal because although they do not actually look like a face, the veiwer sees a face within the blurred colors and shades. These are successful portraits because I used highlights and shadows correctly to create portraits that resemble a face, even though no detail was added.
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