7152QCA Visual communication-week3
I think I’m cool, but form my personality is in disguise. I’m low self-esteem person, so I want to protect myself with dress-up and a weird personality. Remembering the microblog I sent long ago, I made a vow to be a non-conforming, non-sociable, and non-frivolous artist. About five years later, my free time every day is reserved for social media and socializing, and I ask myself every night, is this what I want?
Socialization is certainly good, and hanging out with friends can give me a short release, but often after happiness brings me long silence and emptiness, like a long tunnel, where I can’t find the direction around.
I used to force myself to do a lot of things to make myself look awesome, such as buying a lot of art books, painting some pictures that I couldn’t even explain, trying to be a subculture person, listening to music with strange melodies without lyrics, I seemed to be immersed in the Wonderland that I had woven for myself. But I don’t know if these things are what I want, including art and design. I seemed to forget what the real me really needed. I closed my eyes and tried to find him in my mind, but there was no news of him.
Where did he go? I don’t know. The person might have died long ago when I was an adult or might have died as soon as he knew the world.
Recently, the online world seems to be promoting the idea of being yourself. Everyone is saying that you should be yourself and do not care about what others think. This sentence in five years ago, I would crazy in favor of, but, is to be yourself really right? Will you be happy? In the end, “being yourself” is just another mask for everyone to disguise their vulnerability.
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In this week, I start to practice my illustrator skill:
First of all, I started the steps required by the teacher in class, so I took a very nice selfie as a picture to practice my skills. Then I started to draw the outline of my entire face using the Stroke function. I made some adjustments to the lines I drew. I used a wide line in the middle with two thin ends as the line for my tracing line. This kind of line will look smoother and more vivid when drawing people.
Secondly, I made a second creation of the lines. In the first image, I changed the color of the lines and added details on the eyes. But I was still bored, so I started coloring in. The second and third pictures are my creations of this selfie, a painting in line with my style.
Then, I found some free to use on the network, and do not need to sign the copyright of the portrait pictures to do some AI and PS pictures.
