Self Introduction

My name is Chua Say Yeong, people usually call me Andrew. I'm 19 this year and I still hate vegetables. I'm creative but I'm not good in drawing and I still have an immature personality and attitude. After going to college, my daily activity is quite fixed and repeating. Therefore I have used photograph and photoshop effects to make a self portrait to picture my life now.

sports, games, study and sleep

This inspiration is came from Gavin Hoey and Chuck Nelson, famous photographers on the internet. In my opinion, photograph is invented to capture the moment that we missed and the time that we can't go back anymore. Besides, photograph can captures our face expression and the natural emotions of the instant moment which we can't act purposely. Ancient time when people still don't know how to communicate with words,they use drawing to picture the history and past. This makes me think that pictures and photographs  can presents anything, Therefore I find photograph able to present me as it pictures my life, it captures my activity, my hobby and my life.

Just in case if you want to see my face clearer,here is a picture for you.      : D

Self Portrait- Research 2

According to the research, self portrait is a representation of an artist. It can be painted, drawn, sculpted or photographed. Since middle of 15th century, artists frequently identified depicting themselves as either the main subject, or as important characters in their work. In the 21st century nowadays, people are trying to create different form of self portrait and then came out self portrait with theme or photoshop effects which is more creative and interesting. Here are some examples of creative self portraits.

 

pictures above is from a 16 years old photographer name Cristina Otero, self portrait with theme of fruits

pictures above are multiple self-portraits that using photoshop effects, I find this interesting

Self Portrait-Research

Unlike Creative Thinking Skills Class the assignments for Contextual Studies are all individuals. Now I can't depend on my classmates or Chi Yan anymore, I need to be independent. So now my first assignment is......a SELF PORTRAIT and a maximum 250words self introduction essay. Before I start writing anything, research must be done in order to produce a better work. So I have research some famous self portrait artist and their self portrait pictures and drawings.

This is the self portrait of Pablo Picasso

This is the self portrait of Frida Kahlo

This is the self portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci

 

Every artist's self portrait is unique and each self portrait represents something about themselves.

Contextual Studies

This blog is created for the subject called Contextual Studies and my lecturer is Mr.Charles again. Good to hear that he is teaching us again after having Creative Thinking Skills with him in semester 1. I remembered he said this subject is more to research about theory and history about arts and design. Well, even though we  don't like to read histories, as a design student we must know the history of the things we study and interest in.