Sketches

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Progress

For this project, it was difficult to have an idea / topic but thanks to some suggestions I chose this idea to do it about obtaining my citizenship. For this I added photos on top of my self-portrait in organic shapes that somehow look like torn paper.

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To begin with, I chose a self-portrait that looked neutral, to reinforce the idea that even after having obtained my citizenship here in the USA, I have no preference for one country over the other.

I had to create a new brush using an image of torn paper and with that I deleted several pieces of the self-portrait where I would later add images referring to both Ecuador and the United States. I started by adding flags of each country and left one of my eyes uncovered because I was thinking of adding a hole in paper in that part, but I couldn’t create a brush for that so I discarded the idea (for now).

After all the images have been added to each of the previously designated parts, add more detail to the edges of the torn pieces of paper, such as shadow and white edge details to make it look a bit more realisticand three dimensional.

And so after several final adjustments this is the final product.

Final Piece