Drawing Final - Week 2

After looking at Jan Van Eyck's "Arnolfini Marriage," I tried to come up with ways I could integrate ideas from that into my drawing.  I wasn't really sure which direction to go in from there so I made a list of my thoughts, feelings, ideas, and things that I definitely wanted to include in the drawing.  The list consists of:

3/4 view of my face

dramatic shadows

hands

arms

necklace

vulnerability

demand

stress

art

expression

abstraction

my bedroom? 

park? 

asymmetrical composition

eyes

So I decided I definitely wanted to an asymmetrical composition because I really enjoyed doing that in the last drawing assignment.  At first I wanted to have just a drawing of my face in it, but then I realized we had to have an entire figure in the drawing so I decided I would draw most of my body to the left of the page with a 3/4 view of my face and my eyes staring at the viewer.  I decided I wanted to do an [somewhat abstracted] expressive portrait that conveys vulnerability and demand in the art world.  I started google searching words such as "portraits," "figures," "vulnerability," "abstract," "asymmetrical composition" and "expressionism".  This is what I came up with for inspiration: 

Listperson III by Patricia Allingham Carlson

Vulnerability by Chris Lopez

Number 1A, 1948 (?) by Jackson Pollock

Anarchy by Roseanne Jones

Les Demoiselles D'Avignon by Picasso