Project number 2 was about incorporating all the places we’ve lived as well as an aspect of ourselves into a collage which then became a three part project. The first part was to draw a self portrait of ourselves while looking at ourselves in the mirror. The second part was to make a photoshop collage and the third part was to grid and draw our collage with the medium of our choice. The most challenging part was the self portrait. It was hard for me to figure out the shading and which features of the face to darken. After pinning my drawing on the wall it was a lot easier to notice which parts needed improvement. For my collage I decided to use an outline of myself and fill them with the places that have had a big impact on who I am as a person. The middle image is a picture of the sun setting at the beach back in Vancouver which is my home. This beach, the mountains and the sun set are three huge parts of my life. I have memories on that beach from before I can even remember. The background represents the aspect of nature that holds great importance to my childhood as well as who I am today and the two outlines on the sides are filled with NYC’s skyscrapers. For my drawing of the collage I decided to use hard pastels because it has a softness to it that other mediums don’t always have. The colors of the middle drawing are brighter because they hold a more sensitive and emotional part of my life whereas the NYC silhouettes are harsher because i haven’t built that emotional connection to it yet, but it is slowly growing on me, which is why there is a little bit of light seeping through the top.