Since I chose my picture, I started working on the actual self portrait. Since this is a mixed unit between Art and IT, most of this work was done in art class, since we were documenting the process in IT.
The first step was to draw our picture on the paper. For this project, we didn't actually have to draw it by ourselves, we used a projector to display the edited picture on a piece of paper and from then on just copied the lines (aha! that's why the portraits from last year looked so great - I thought their class was much more artistic than ours). I really liked that, because we all started on an equal basis. I would've liked my self portrait a lot less if I'd had to draw it entirely by myself because my drawing skills would've made it look less good from the beginning.
Drawing from the projector was fun but actually harder than I expected. I always use gradients in my computer artworks, but the problem with those is that you don't really get "lines" to draw across. My final design, which was already much simpler than other ones I had in mind, still took me a long time to draw. I didn't know what to include, so I just drew every line I managed to see, including highlights, shadows, etc. I was very happy with the result, though - I wish I could actually draw like that...
My self portrait has officially crossed the border between virtual and real. I feel a little strange having such a big picture of me somewhere, but it was interesting to use the projector. Maybe I could also try that at home, as practice for actually drawing things!
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