Deconstruction

As part of the series of process & production workshop named self publication that was introduced by Nick Deaking the third task when based around the deconstruction of a self portrait. We where given an A4 print out of our student ID photo that we had to deconstruct and scale it down into an A5. The end product from the first section was a self portrait in which I took my inspiration from the work of Pablo Picasso with his abstract approach to design he brought an almost cartoon like realism to the work he produced and I wanted to channel this style in my work, I like the fact there is still distinguishable features apparent in my work even though they have been cut up. After this we had to draw the portrait that we had made using only black pen.

The second section of the task involved photocopying our own face and making it into another self portrait this was a similar task to the first but the scale and perspective of the photographs where different so it made the outcomes a little bit more exciting. As the image was larger there was a lot more room for playing around with different abstractions. The picture at the top left was the larger of the two portraits it was a lot more abstract than the first and I include a lot more detail like hair and eye brows using block colours and blank space from cut outs of the larger photo. Being able to work in a larger scale mean that it was a lot more clear what I was trying to produce as you don't have to dissect the image as small.

Our final task was to create an A3 sized portrait using only pieces of paper that were covered in dots. Each page had more dots on that were closer together so made the colour look darker. This meant that we had to consider how we could use different tones to mould shapes on our face for example contours on our cheeks and definition around our eye socket. Instead of going for a realistic look with  mine I tried to make it look like a pop art painting in the style of Roy Litchensutein. The dots on the pattern reminded me of the style he worked in back in the 1950's when the pop art movement was at the forefront of the design world. I over exaggerated the size of the eye brows and lips almost like a characterure which large features.

The picture on the right was a showcase of the work from the day that nick picked from through out the day, three of my pieces of work were featured that I have circled. I find it really beneficial to get this kind of positive feedback from my work as I can lack confidence to push outside my comfort zone. I really liked the way we had a free reign over the style we worked in as usually in process and production we have to follow stricter targets. Overall I think this workshop has helped to grow my confidence working in a more abstract and physical way as a started point to develop ideas. It can be a good way of developing new ideas.