My project for course: Mixed Media Portraiture: Capturing Expressions and Emotions

I'm going to preface this by saying that I'm not sure my project counts exactly, because I didn't use the same abstraction mediums as the course.

I'm not a stranger to drawing portraits, but I struggle with using color, so this course looked like an interesting way to add some color elements to the kind of pieces I already do. I, uh, went overboard with the drawing part, and by the time I watched the abstraction video, I realized those mediums (paint, oil pastels) weren't something I wanted to experiment with on this particular portrait. Ideally, I should have done a simpler drawing with far more white space to allow room for the abstraction. I will likely experiment with those techniques on some of my older portraits where there's less consequence if I screw up.

For this one, I still wanted to add some mixed media, so I opted for some abstract foil leafing, which I applied to the finished drawing with a brush and clear glue. It was difficult take a proper photo of, but it sure is pretty.