Brief
1) PROJECT NAME: Self Portrait
How is the project in keeping with the course outcomes? Write this out.
How will this project be in keeping with the PSLOs? Write this out.
2) PROJECT SUMMARY
You will be creating a self-portrait after researching other artist and many preliminary sketches.
o A self-portrait.
o Research of 3 well known artists who did self-portraits and other portraits will be conducted. One of each artist’s works will be analyzed. All research will be documented using MLA.
o Preliminary exploration will be documented in your sketchbook and uploaded to WordPress.
o Create a word list for your portrait.
o What adjectives would you use to describe the intent of your work?
o Write out what and how you intend to do. Why?
o What environment will you include? Why?
o Allow for aberrations, alterations, and explorations.
o Allow for many thumb nail possibilities.
o 3 preliminary layouts (11”x15”) with written explanation of intent and
mediums to be used with written explanation for each possible variation.
o Notes taken during pre-critiques and final critique need to be included in WordPress posting.
3) Objective
· What is the problem to solve?
· What are your goals?
· What will be your measures of success
· Are there multiple levels of success?
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4) Target Audience
Alfred State College, Ergo, classmates, sophomores, juniors and seniors, and faculty (we notice)
5) List Deliverables
· Brief
· Documented research MLA. Show where you obtained the images from which you worked.
· Design Process recorded (with all rough drafts), Preliminary sketches that allowed you to draw them with understanding and preliminary images for the cumulative image.
· Screen shots of file management pertinent to this project. Make sure you do this and save screen shots to WordPress.
· Final image(s) and a detail of final image,
· Write up
· All on WordPress before critique.
6) Competition Identified
Yourself – how to exceed your own expectations. Write this out.
7) Details of Tone, Message and Style Write this out. This is part of the deliverables!!!!
· The final image is of your choice. Define what you hope to achieve before you start it.
· What are your intentions, desires, goals through the tone, message and style?
8) Time Line
· Stages of the project listed with due dates.
· Design Process worked into timeline.
· Final presentation dates recoded: WordPress and in-class.
9) Budget
· Cost: time, money.
· What supplies are needed?
· What grade is needed?
10) Key Stake Holders
· These will be the people you have identified as resources for guidance and others to present work to for feedback before the final presentation.
· Get their contact information and set days and times to meet. (Time line)
· Name of project
· Due date
· Project parameters: dimension, format, mediums, software
· Design Process shown: idea generation, research of related projects or others’ work, preliminary sketches, refined sketches, written and visual presentation of refined idea(s)/concept/intent, refined idea, final product, presentation, response to final critique.
DOCUMENTED RESEARCH
Portrait Research
Vincent Van Gogh– Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still life’s, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterized by bold colors and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He was not commercially successful, and his suicide at 37 came after years of mental illness, depression, and poverty.
Rembrandt- Rembrandt van Rijn, in full Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Rembrandt originally spelled Rembrant, (born July 15, 1606, Leiden, Netherlands—died October 4, 1669, Amsterdam), Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favored an uncompromising realism that would lead some critics to claim that he preferred ugliness to beauty.
Florian Nicolle- Florian Nicolle aka NEO is a French Graphic Designer and Illustrator with an impressive collection of collage-style work combining grunge patterns and elements with clean lines, subtle colors and great balance.
FOLDER ORGANIZATION
WRITE UP
I personally struggled with completing this project. With everything going on from COVID-19, my best friend’s dad passing away and my girlfriend breaking up with me. I really had no motivation, but I knew I needed to do something to show my skills to the best of my ability with what I had on me. Photoshop has been my go to for many projects and it has not let me down.
I also really didn’t do drawn images cause I had no idea of where I wanted to go with this piece. I was first looking at religious artwork for inspiration but religion right now is not my go to. So, when I saw Florian Nicolle’s work, I decided to get rid of my original idea of just my face and go with my outlined body, with my scars outlined as well along with labels I have gathered over my lifetime. I felt that simple was better than to much detail. I would always struggle with that, having too much detail. But, I am glad with how this piece turned out.
I have learned alot from this class, and I hope to continue to use these skills and lessons in my own art in the future. And hoping that this project allows me to finish on a good note for this strange semester.
