"Asian"
The scene: I was getting dinner with a couple of other people, some of whom I’d just met that night. One of them was a woman who had just graduated from UC Berkeley (congratulations, class of 2013), and we had already shared a few stories about our experiences there. At some point in the conversation, she turned to me and said, “So, are you friends with a lot of Asians?”
The Traced Portrait Project
I’m really happy with these traced black-and-white portraits.
I didn’t expect it to be such a thing for me. I had the idea early last week, hoped I’d be able to pull it off, and was pretty happy for the assignment when the first few came out looking like family members in a reasonable amount of time. When I finished the next day, I couldn’t resist sharing the final project.
It might have stopped there, but my friend Theresa asked me to do one for her as well. And I went to a concert on Friday, and thought to try making some for the artists. And it was still fun, and I was feeling…proud of them.
Traced Family
For my Korean class I had to make a little “About Me” poster thing that included my job, where I live, my family…things like that. We’re also supposed to make the poster visually interesting somehow.
For some reason, what came to my mind was to sketch my family somehow—and to try a new form of sketching: traced black-and-white portraits. The software company Rogue Amoeba uses this kind of portrait for their Staff page, and I really like the effect. So…