Self-portraiture is an essential, if not required, element in any college art portfolio. A good self-portrait represents who you are as a unique individual.
A self-portrait can take many forms, but you don’t have to focus on technicality. Especially if it is a drawing, what is more important is how to portray yourself, your personality, and your character as as a self-expressive tool. It can be on a classic rectangular drawing sheet, a canvas, a digital screen, or in 3D space.
Our student work example here is a drawing that combines various mediums to create a self-portrait drawing that softly breaks out of its rectangular form, while still showing some foundational drawing skills with charcoal and pastels, along with a fun twist of a actual pair of scissors that interacts with the drawing. It also tells us a creative narrative of the student in the 2D world crafting a portrait of themselves that cuts into the 3D world.
Imagine how you’d like to portray yourself. Is it calm and poised, dynamic and continuous, or combination of anything inbetween?
