Criterion D Portraiture Technology

I was probably the last one to trace my portrait on paper due to the shortage of time and projectors, but i managed to get it done. Since i used the most plain portrait i happened to outline it very fast. My idea of the poster is that i will paint the background with different colors (to show i like colorful things) and paste different stuff that shows my interests like a collage: such as pictures, cut-outs, Cd's etc.
The Process
The materials i am going to use are magazine cut-outs, grass, paint and colored pencils. I painted the background with the 7 colors of the rainbow, which shows i like colors, and then pasted magazine cut-outs, which represents my interests, such as cars, dogs etc. I used the grass as my hair which expresses my appreciation for nature. However, i didn't collect enough grass therefore my hair looks really dumb. I wanted to use string or yarn as my hair but i don't have long hair, and also someone else was using yarn as her hair so i didn't want to copy it. I could've covered the whole background with mag cut-outs but it is really arduous to look for certain things in a magazine, because most of the magazine are text and news.

I spread the white glue over my hair and stick all the grass evenly. The cool thing is that the grass dried out and turned yellow, which shows that my hair is blondish (but it is light brown). The only thing is that there wasn't enough grass to cover the top of my head. After all the gluing and pasting i painted my face with colored pencils. My face is the most "ugly" part because it looks very fat and different from me, plus i don't know how to color "good" like professionals do. My face doesn't have enough definition so it looks really plain and light.

The project in general is very exciting and fun, but because of the lack of my artistic skills, i ended up ruining my portrait. I don't feel very bad about it but it is depressing to have a finished portrait that doesnt look as good, and I was dumbfounded by everyone else's portraits. This project gave me insight to how art can be much more creative if you use different things. It isn't only about pencils and paint, art is anything. We are lucky because we are using good thick paper as of last year's 10th graders used very thin paper and they all wrinkled up and were just bad.

My portrait took 3 double period classes to finish, and i was one of the ones that finished earliest, but still need to write my reflection. Ms. Sudra gave me a lot of help during the process by giving me examples, showing me how to do a certain stuff and what i could do. I applied her advice to my portrait but still my portrait looks very simple and ugly. But i don't think the product is very important but my enthusiasm and work attitude is, and those are the areas that will be graded.

The Product

The product looks nothing like what I've been expecting. At first i thought that my finished artwork would look very unique and interesting but it turned out being a disasterpiece.