Today we started our first studio practice activity, which was to make a mask of our self. At first I really panicked at this idea and thought I'd be really embarrassed making things in front of people but after about 5 minutes I had to let it go. As you can see from my sketches at first I wanted to go really simple and just make a face that looked vaguely like I think my face appears to others, which is where the smiley or shy looking faces came from. But after I realised that these things didn't really seem to reflect me that well, I decided to get a bit silly with it and started playing around with different motifs that mean something for me. For example the mug or the book as I love coffee and am always reading. Then I started to think what animal I'd be and which animal appears to others the same way I feel to others. The two that came to mind were a deer in the headlights (for obvious reasons), and an Anteater because they're a bit weird and awkward.
The two ideas I liked best were the deer and the anteater because I thought they had the most character. I would have done the deer idea but I didn't think it was very original so I went for the anteater. I tried to refine my sketches a little bit and wanted to make it a little bit cartoonish and fun. Below are my final sketches.
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