7- Brady C. Self Portrait

For my self portrait, I knew I wanted to incorporate drawing by subtraction, and also wanted to do some form of my own face, because I feel like I've gotten a lot better at drawing this semester and have never actually drawn myself to any degree of accuracy. At the same time, I didn't want to just do a self portrait- I wanted it to say something more about myself than just my face. I eventually realized that I wanted to do an "old man in the mountain" rendering of my own face. For those of you who don't know, the old man in the mountain is (was) a New Hampshire monument where it looks like an old man's face made of rock sticking out of the mountain (see below). (Unfortunately, due to weathering and erosion and whatnot, he fell off a few years ago and now it's just a cliff...) Anyway, I used to ski on the backside of the same mountain that he 'lived' on, and drove by him every weekend during the winter for 4 years of my life and many other trips to NH, and I felt that he was a really cool natural monument that spoke a lot about the beauty of nature. I also feel that my face is way more beautiful than his, so that just makes the whole monument that much better (jk).

Old Man in the Mountain:

New Man in the Mountain: