For my portrait, I went for pop art styling. Originally I was planning on choosing a graffiti style based off Michel Basquiat, but I came across a portrait of Michel Basquiat by Andy Warhol which gave me the inspiration to do a pop art style. Overall I feel that it was a good choice to do pop art because it seemed easier to do that art style digitally.

When making art in any medium you need to make artistic choices to bring the piece of art to a higher viewing level, I had to make allot of choices making this piece of art. The first decision I had to make was how am I going to make was what am I going to do and how am I going to make it. The first big decision was to chose I program I was going to work on, I decided to use photoshop because it's the program that I was most familiar with and it made the most sense for my project. The second big decision I had to make was what am I going to use for the background of my project, I chose a more surreal acid wash looking background to make the photo brighter. These two decisions affected my picture because Photoshop effect they way I drew myself in the picture, and the background affect the contrast between my dark outline and empty space on the picture.

When making this picture I started by looking through art by my favorite artists to get inspiration. After I chose what style I wanted I started by taking photos of myself to help myself create an outline later on. After getting the photos I traced out my photo in a gritty style. After getting down the outline and focus of the picture I started to make my background. I wanted my background to look like gray acid wash so I did just that, I got a photo of gray acid wash jeans and manipulated the photo into being my background.

Overall I am not very satisfied with the final project. I wish I was able to create a similar background with my own patterns and resolution because the photo I picked for the background ended being a very low resolution by the end of manipulating it.