Self Portrait

PROJECT ASSIGNMENT:Create a self portrait mimicking the style of a famous artist. 

I've always admired Chuck Close and his one-of-a-kind technique. I just never thought I'd have the patience to do such minute detailing. But I really wanted to challenge myself for this final project in my digital class so that's how I chose this style. I put countless hours into this piece, after each session with my face glued to my 15" laptop screen, I swore I was going cross eyed. I knew going into this that it would take a lot of time and effort, my professor warned me several times. But that's what made me want to spend countless hours staring at layers upon layers of shapes. I can't say I'm 100% satisfied with it, I think there were several other ways I could have gone about it. But seeing as this was my first time using Illustrator, I think I did a pretty good job figuring out the various tools to help me go about this tricky technique. I'm very interested to see how the class reacts to it at my final critique so we'll have to wait and see.