Lost Souls Portrait

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I am in a strange place in my life.  I will soon graduate college and enter the real world.  I am excited to be able to pursue my dreams but on the other hand I feel there are still certain restrictions in my life.  What helps me get through the day is that small sense of hope that all my turmoils in life will one day pay off as long as I keep fighting for my main goal and purpose in life.  This picture reflects my optimism despite those bleak moments.

  I chose this assignment because I thought it would be a nice break from the computer.  I have not done a self portrait in a while and thought it would be a good challenge.  Typically my self portraits are more light hearted but I’ve been in a fowl mood lately which you can see reflected within my piece.

  This piece was created with watercolors on sketchbook paper.  When painting this I wanted a monotone color scheme to help give it that darker feel.  I made my brush strokes heavier than one would with watercolors to express a feeling of nausea.  I am also a big sucker for vignetting so I added that later with editing.

 

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When you’re in a pinch…

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I’m traveling today and tomorrow to lead some training on Flipped Learning and let’s just say it hasn’t been the smoothest trip so far.

First, I thought (my own fault, btw) we were doing Mac training. Turns out, we’re doing PC. So, I partitioned my hard drive and managed to get Windows installed before I left.

Second, I’m tearing out my kitchen this weekend to begin a big remodel. So, while I was packing to leave, I was also trying to straighten out my junk so my pregnant wife didn’t have to do it all on her own. Oh, I forgot to mention that my entire family is coming to help. I love them all dearly, but its going to be a packed house for a couple days.

All of which brings me to my third point: in my haste to leave, I left my computer’s power cord at home. Ugh. Rookie mistake.

I got down to the very cozy bed and breakfast that was arranged for me, and I began thinking about how I could keep up with my #ds106 work for this week using only mobile apps. Thankfully, Ben Rimes, Jim Groom, and Scott Lo came to my rescue. This network really is amazing. Everyone is extremely encouraging and eager to help. I’m loving my experience so far.

Anyways, I opened up SketchBook Express, which is the mobile version of the SketchBook platform for OSX. It’s a pretty powerful drawing program which gives you all kinds of different brushes and tools as well as layer editing. Exactly what I needed. I decided to take a stab at the “Looking at Yourself” assignment because it would give me a chance to play with the app a little more.

Dang, I love it.

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As always, the photo is free to use.

I was able to create the image using a previous shot from the camera roll and layering a quick screenshot on top. All of the editing, including the trimming, positioning, layering, and transparency were done in the app. It’s free, and definitely worth downloading.

I’m wondering if I should try and do as many assignments as I can using mobile only. As a former teacher, I’m a big believer that mobile is going to be the new normal in schools, and having a broad range of experience creating on mobile might be useful in the future.

Anyways, just some things to chew on. Now, I’m finally going to get some sleep.

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Haydenraptor

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I’ve always loved dinosaurs, yet, oddly enough, I never included myself among them in my hundreds of sketches of them as a child. The point of this, however, was not to draw a picture of a dinosaur. I decided my portrait needed one, however.

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Looking at yourself

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Draw, photograph, or paint your self portrait.  Make it interesting, in some way tell a story about yourself within the image.  You can use one or mulyiple images to complete this assignment.

It can be realistic or abstract. 

 

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