Self portrait book

ROBnarciso'sSELFportraits

For this part of the project I scanned my image into my computer and then proceeded to photocopy my face to have multiple images. During the photo copying process i took advantage of the brightening and darkening that the photocopy machine provides for me. This was kinda like my ode to Andy Warhol. By repeatedly copying the image it transforms into something else completely. The brightness and darkness are supposed to represent the different moods i can go through.  
This is a cast of my face. The great people at LAB helped me with this. I had made a plaster cast and noticed this other material being used by somebody else in the class. and asked her if i could use it. I wanted to use this material because it is the same process that hockey helmets are made out of (too much discovery channel) and i felt that it was fitting. Its kinda like the wall i put up, the wall that keeps me from getting hurt, the wall i wear as a mask. 
This portrait was just a study of my face. I have already done straight line drawings of my face in other classes and i wanted to try and draw with paint. It is not exactly me but it kind of represents how i feel on certain days. not complete and blending in (the face isn't complete) 
This is face print (like a finger print but a face print) I painted my face and then used the cloth to take it off and the surface area of my face is left over on the cloth. Overall i think they are successful. they aren't exactly how i look. Some are more distorted then others. but this goes along the lines of how i feel. (i know, i am repeating that theme) but some look angry while others like calm. Also they look like the Rorchach inkblot test which is all about subjectivity and can be interpreted however the audience may feel. which is kind of like life, just walking down the sidewalk, the interaction of people and how their moods can influence you. 
The last one i am going to post is of a bridge clearance sign. I wanted one of my portraits to somehow incorporate my height. (this is usually the first thing people notice, so i guess it is an important part of me) I also liked this because it can represent the fact that i can connect people or on the other hand it can represent that i don't allow that many people in (my wall again) (if this was an actual bridge sign not many cars would be able to pass through it) 

There was also a song that i included with self portraits that nobody listened to. This song included different parts of songs (most classic rock) that i thought represented me. The song parts were then laid over each other in no particular order. All that was important was the lyrics that was song. This represents how much music is apart of me and how i can see my self in my songs that i sing. 

hop scotch

they're not in the right order but its all hood

15 Self-Portraits

I decided to take the 15 representational self-portraits literally, I drew myself in b&w because sometime I see the world in black or white, the color is in color because life is meant to have color. The next image is me as an alligator because I tend to snap at people and because I'm very angry. The other picture is drawn from a small mirror. I made the shirt blue because I was wearing a bright blue shirt that day. I was bored and the only exciting thing was the color of my shirt. The last picture is me being a clown fish. I think I'm a funny person so I made myself as a fish.

"Temet Nosce"

For the self portrait project my mind went immediately to what the "idea" of a self portrait meant to me. I feel the self portrait should be a collection, collage of who you feel you are inside and out. I felt that the last few years of my life have been interesting and unsteady, which have changed my character. I believe that through our experiences and exposures we build our character and collect different scars and wisdom. I believe as an artist its important to go through life sensitive to your surroundings and return translate them through your pen.

Jorge Lindo: Final Project Self Portraits

All i really want to say about this final project is how miserable it made me feel. Although i came up with a couple of good drawings that i liked a lot, the overall experience was painful. My face is not something i really enjoy drawing not because i don't like it but because i see drawing, painting, or even photographing myself as representing myself and i do not see a single image ever capturing the real me. A draiwng of me smiling or of me frowning cannot really say who i am. A moment in time cannot really explain a human being. I love drawing and painting and photographing other people not because i believe i am capturing their essence but because i believe i am capturing a moment worth remembering. That is why when somebody asks me to take their picture or portrait, most of the time i refuse.

Final Drawing Project

My Brain Me when I get old
my clothes
body parts
mustache bush
more clothes

So here are most of the drawings that I did for the self portrait project.  I decided to do more of an installation presentation because I get more enjoyment out of those types of projects especially when the project takes more time.  The idea is that I did not want to confine myself or a representation of myself to an 18 by 24 rectangle.  the project was displayed with the brain in the middle.  It represented my thought process, beginning at the brain, with different kinds of ideas stemming from my mind and creativity.

Final Project: 15 Self Portraits

I didn't really have an underlying theme, just some ideas that I wanted to try. Although I did want all of my portraits facing a certain way. The idea I wanted to play around with was taking the most basic position for a self portrait and tweaking it in some way. They were all self portraits in the most basic sense however they each had their own character. I also just added some that weren't in that basic position for some variety.



A watercolor of a lamb carcass. This was inspired by an artist who painted a lot of carcasses, his statement was that underneath it all we're just walking sacks of meat.

A charcoal portrait done on the back of a shoebox that I unraveled. I liked the shape that the cardboard made.

A collage of some trash I had sitting around. This is basically my diet and I was going with the old saying, "you are what you eat".


A self-portrait done in chalk pastel. The paper that I drew on was my 15 page research paper that I stapled together in no particular order. That paper took up a good portion of my life and it made my semester terrible so I took out my frustration on it by scratching into it a self-portrait (I didn't want to break the paper but in some places there are tears where I got a little too excited).


This is a portrait of a portrait of a portrait of a portrait of a self-portrait. It's just something I wanted to do, I wanted to see where I would end up after so much copying. The original self-portrait is after this one.


This was the original self-portrait that I made those copies out of.


Here is one of the in-between portraits, this one and the other two after it have quick charcoal sketches of animal faces done over the pencil drawing. This one is a locust. All three charcoal sketch portraits represent an animal that I hate.


This one represents owls, more specifically snow owls. Their faces really creep me out but lately I've had a strange attraction to the shape its eyes make. A sort of "V" shape with winged edges.


This one represents sloths. I really don't like sloths.