I draw myself a lot, specially when I’m sketching on my notebook. It’s easy and I can think about other things while scribbling. I was thinking about all these drawings when I came up with this idea of the self portrait and the self image. I think I’m mostly drawing the latter, and it takes a little more skill or attention to do the former. Also, I think there is a more emotional component to the drawings I sketch, both in terms of the emotion I want to convey with the drawing, which can have little or nothing to do with how I look in real life, and in terms of what I am feeling, which makes this a interior, subjective portrait instead of one that really emphasizes my features.
Self portrait versus self image
Self portrait versus self image
Self portrait versus self image
I draw myself a lot, specially when I’m sketching on my notebook. It’s easy and I can think about other things while scribbling. I was thinking about all these drawings when I came up with this idea of the self portrait and the self image. I think I’m mostly drawing the latter, and it takes a little more skill or attention to do the former. Also, I think there is a more emotional component to the drawings I sketch, both in terms of the emotion I want to convey with the drawing, which can have little or nothing to do with how I look in real life, and in terms of what I am feeling, which makes this a interior, subjective portrait instead of one that really emphasizes my features.