Arts: Modigliani-Style Self Portriat

Modigliani-Style - Rexican Italian Detective Rex

of Another Timeline in His 30s

In this project, we did the bibliography of three artists. They were Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and Amedeo Modigliani. All of them has their own special style with their own elements.

Along with each bibliography, we were asked to copy one drawing / painting of the artist.

Afterwards, we were to pick one artist and draw 3 self-portraits draw a sketch modifying a painting of his and using his style. I chose to modify Amedeo Modigliani's drawing. It might have been interesting, fun, and creative to modify one of Picasso's drawings. However, I thought I wanted to do something different from what many of the others have chosen. Perhaps risk-taking is about trying something new instead of something different. Perhaps I will try something new the next time. Though it was still fun to modify Modigliani's drawing with the long necks of his style.

Then, we pick one of the three sketches and use it for our final drawing. I first carefully outlined the body from my sketch to the A3 sized paper with care and detail to the proportions. Then, I outlined the shape of the head and went on to the hat. I went back later to finish my face with some changes from my sketch. With many tries and erasing, I finished it. Next, I used crayons to colour the self-portrait in with sharp colours, with multiple blending of colours (yellow, peach, white for skin. Blue brown for moustache).

This was a fun project, which not only involved modifying the drawing, but the general style of an artist.