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Dive deep into your creative self and unleash the wild child within to create an expressive self-portrait. Explore comparisons such as animals, objects, colors, and locations that resonate with your creativity. Experiment with techniques like exaggeration, unusual combinations, and perspective to depict your strengths and challenges metaphorically. Embrace the preposterous, colorful, and weird elements of your imagination to craft a unique visual representation of your creative essence.
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Brainstorm:What can you compare your creativity to? • If your creativity were an animal, what would it be? • What about an object? • What colors do you associate with yourself? • What locations do you associate with yourself? • What other metaphoric images come to mind when you think of your creative self? • What strengths and/or challenges would you like to depict?
Get in touch with the wild child within. • Some interesting creative techniques: • Exaggeration • Unusual combinations of imagery. • Cut up pieces of an image and rearrange it. • Experiment with landscape, animals, food, objects • Experiment with perspective, camera angles, etc. • Omit yourself entirely
“Appropriation” • You may “appropriate” images from the Internet for this exercise • But the overall image must be at least 70% original • The concept must be your original work (rather than already being realized in images you appropriate). • If you appropriate work, keep a list for yourself of the authors of the work you’re using, for your own reference.
When/How/How Far to Google(how Googling affects your creative process)
Next Steps • Brainstorm LOTS of ideas (about 50 is average for creative work) • These may include ideas related to one another—let them flow. • Make rough sketches. Then, move to drafts. • Use any medium. • If you use a digital camera, take LOTS of pics before you pick one. • Think of how you will explain your portrait and tell us a brief story of your creative life.
