The inspiration for my artwork was secrets and insecurities. I think it was very human
and something people, everyone could relate
to because we all have those kind of things
that we're insecure about. The first inspiration
I kind of took from, was the music video,
the All-American Rejects. I kind of went through
different artists and other kind of things
so I looked at the confessions people wrote
down anonymous confessions, and that led me
to make my own survey on Survey Monkey where
I got my peers to send in their own confessions
which, so then I started looking into text
and then I started going through other artists
all throughout my folio I looked at different
artists to get a different feel of how people
express emotions.
And then I started looking at body language
and just different ways of expressing the
emotions of insecurities. Also simultaneously
when I was doing my other folio, I was studying
emotions and black and white so I think that
really helped me, kind of like, relate to
the emotional side of the piece. So it did
kind of get quite dark in a way, because of
that. Then I started using myself as a subject
just quickly doing little sketches and
stuff to just get a kind of idea of what I
might do and just different versions of kind
of portraits after the Steve Rosenfield's
photos, I thought portraits was a good way
to express the insecurities because they're
very human feelings so I thought that would
be the best way to portray it I guess.
And then I also looked at some DeviantArt
artists, I looked at someone called eLfanka
and I like the censoring so I tried that as
well on myself as well. I chose myself as
a subject because I didn't want to get any
of the, my peers too involved because it might
be a bit sensitive because a lot of the confessions I got through the surveys were surprisingly very personal.
I also looked at keys because secrets, locks.
When I started looking at my actual piece after all
the research, I played with different mediums
until I got back to graphite because that's
what I'm comfortable with so had to just work
back to that and I quite like it kind of rough,
black and white. It seemed much more sensitive
in a way than colour in a way. I'm not sure,
just me. In the last week or two, I just worked
on my portrait and that's what I've got here.
As a word of advice, I think you should just
start early. Every week, I did about a page
or two, so number of pages I'd do this week
or if I had a test some other week I'd put
less then, so I got all the pages done. This
year I'm studying Visual Art at UniSA and
that's going well.
