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Hello Twenty One Years of Life. :)

I have to say that I really had a fantastic birthday. It didn't turn out how I expected, it turned out better. It started with Sweet Dream Cupcakes and an unexpected gift from my parents. (That I'm entirely too excited about.) Then a graduation party for a great family friend. Then my parents took me to Acquaviva (my second job for the summer) which was a very interesting experience. After that I headed to Wheaton to meet up with some of my fantastic friends from Taylor. Anyway, I'm thankful for everything that I've been blessed with over the past years.

Here are some pics from the day!

One of the "briana do something crazy shots" by Heidi

I love Maggie Burns. :)

Well...best picture we have with Rutzen.

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"Misconception"

Concept:
Doppelganger is described as the ghostly double, evil twin, and harbinger of the future. Its use in this ongoing visual exploration of your relationship with the depiction of self [self portrait] is to create a metaphor of your alter ego or an exaggeration of an aspect of yourself with the presentation you typically adopt. The use of emotive hue through emphasizing temperature, value, mark and expressive color will offer the climate and impact required for your specific communication.

A. In you SKETCH BOOK write out 10 personal characteristics that describe how you perceive others see you.
1. What is you presentation of self?
2. Who are you attracted to, or repelled by and why?
3. What would be a total contradiction to who you are?

Result:




Basically this was my favorite piece to work on all semester. I love working in color and I'm finally okay with my style of drawing. I started to use directional lines on figure forms in life drawing about a year ago, and never really strayed away from it. I also for the first time was able to convey movement of fabric with the illusion of folds.

So what is my piece saying? I started thinking about how people see me, actually, how I thought people would see me when I started at NIU this semester. Being a Christian in the art department can be a struggle at times. Overhearing conversations at the beginning of the semester before I actually "revealed" my faith to people, opened my eyes to how "religious" people are perceived. The figure on the right is me as a nun. It is a super exaggerated view of who I am. I'm showing myself as extremely judgmental, righteous, religious, etc. Like I said, exaggerated view of Christianity based on overheard conversations and media portrayal. The figure on the left is me, as me. Me plugging my ears to block out all the comments and misconceptions about my faith.

This piece took forever and a day. :) But I love it. It is actually hanging up in the art building all summer along with some of my fellow classmate's pieces. So there ya go. Drawing 2 Final. :)