Concept:
For my self portrait I wanted to do something slightly unconventional. Joan Miro is an artist that I really like and I thus decided to do my self portrait in his unorthodox surrealist style. I wanted to have fun background elements commonly seen in his artwork such as the crescent moon and a star.
Something I’m proud of:
Something I’m proud of for this assignment are the random curves across the whole portrait, and especially drawing the crescent moon. These aspects took me the longest time to figure out and are thus the ones I am most proud of.
function details() {
fill(255,255,0);//drawing a crescent moon shape by drawing two intersecting circles and having one of them be the color of the background
//this effect makes it so that the second circle cuts the first one to make the moon shape
noStroke();
ellipse(150,630,100,100);
fill(240, 248, 255);
ellipse(170,630,100,100);
//drawing the diagonal lines for the eyebrows
stroke(0);
strokeWeight(4);
line(300, 300, 450, 400);
line(500, 400, 650, 300);
//drawing the yellow curve around the mouth
noFill();
stroke(255, 215, 0);
strokeWeight(8);
beginShape();
vertex(250, 550);
bezierVertex(350, 500, 450, 700, 550, 550);
endShape();
}
Final Product:
Reflections:
I enjoyed working on this assignment quite a lot, it was a fun experience juggling between taking inspiration from Miro and then also trying to add my own personality into the portrait so I could make something I could be truly proud of. An aspect that I would like to work on in the future is adding some sort of interactivity maybe with eye movement or some background features morphing into others to further portray the dreamlike essence of Joan Miro.