Working Desk

This is the final project of my Basic Drawing class at Purdue University. It's a self-portrait, but it's not about just drawing our own big fat face, it's about making a drawing that tells a lot about ourselves, so it can be in any form we want. I basically got a whole lot of ideas, but my friends and my instructor loved this idea the most, so OK I did this, in just 2 days' time, including 1 sleepless night.


So the idea is that, in the picture, I was drawing myself on the big white paper that was spreaded across the desk. That part of me was the only drawing of myself in the picture that emphasizes the beauty of lines, well, and also the part of me in 'My Family' photo. But the one in the photo is the type of drawing that I do when I was 9 years old (the year '1999' was written above), and the part of me that I was drawing was when I was 17 years old (the year '2007'). Then beside the photo is a crumpled piece of paper, just to show that there is not a single great artist whose desk is tidy ^^

Then there's a "Fly Away" picture of a butterfly flying away... I like butterflies, and I make quite a lot of works with butterflies, so it has became a part of me and that's why it's in this picture. Then there's a failed math test, which apparently was supposed to be a simple one. Now why are there so many number 9s in it? Just showing that 9 is in fact my lucky number, and I suck at math and I hate it, so I drew a lot of craps on the paper. And then there's another part of me with my face beside a sunflower. Well, sunflower is my favorite flower, and even though my face is not as bright as a sunflower, I try to make it that way in the picture :P

And then there's a painting called "Freedom", simplicity is what counts. Blue is my favorite color, and freedom is what I am if I'm a word, so the purpose of the picture was to show those facts. And there's another part of me with the composition only showing my legs, and dolphin, at a beach, in the morning. I prefer sunrise over sunset, and I love dolphins (at that time I haven't begun my obssession with dogs, but I always love dolphins and their carefreeness and freedom, and most of all, their smile!) and then why my legs? Because my star sign is Pisces, my legs are considerably the most dominant part of my whole body.

Then there's another part of me in a more solid and graphic kind of drawing. My expression is very emotional in that picture. Just shows that I'm a very emotional person. "A woman's heart is an ocean-deep of secrets" describes a lot about me, so I put it in the picture too, and for your information, the quote was taken and paraphrased from the movie Titanic. Below the quote is a torn picture of the depth of an ocean with a treasure box. Inside that treasure box lies my heart :P This was inspired by Pirates of Carribean: Dead Men's Chest.

So there's also my pencil stand, a bright pink one with a strawberry on it. Why strawberry? Because a special someone in my life refers me as a strawberry, and when you refer someone as a strawberry, it means you like them :) And why all the blue colored pencils? I mentioned it before, because I LOVE blue. Why a sunflower? Because I love sunflowers. Why a long, metal ruler? Because every artist needs a long, metal ruler.

So the brush, the cutter, and the mechanical pencil was there just to show that you I am in fact an artist. And so I really showed a lot of my ego in this entry, huh? But the truth is, I am not that satisfied with this picture, because the poor quality of my craftsmanship, and basically just the messy composition. But oh well, it describes me a lot, that's why I framed it and put it on my bedroom wall.