Self Portrait

I figured it was about time for a new self portrait/re-assessment of how I draw myself, because my previous avatar doesn’t even remotely resemble me anymore (not that she ever did or was intended to). The old one is a design that hasn’t really changed much since its inception in high school, and now that I’m a college graduate I decided it was time for something new.

This time, I tried to really draw something that looked like me. I cut my hair before I went to Japan a year ago and I’ve been trying to keep it short ever since. I never used to draw myself with glasses (even though I wore them all through high school) so I tried to capture those down to the exact structure of the frames.

When I designed the old avatar (and indeed, every avatar I’ve ever drawn for myself before this) it wasn’t supposed to be a self-portrait as much as an idealization; that is, I drew myself how I thought I should look, or how I looked in my head. It was a character that could represent “me” rather than a real portrait. Since I’ve changed my physical appearance so much, I couldn’t look at the old avatar and still see myself. So that’s why I drew this I guess

Completed 5.31.14