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In my spring semester of my Freshman year of community college, in Drawing II class, we were
instructed to draw a "non-traditional self-portrait" of ourselves for an assignment.
The final product was 18 x 20, and due to its large size, I couldn't just scan it. Because
of that, I had to use a cheap digital computer camera and the result is the low resolution picture
you see above. About the drawing itself, we had to incorporate things that symbolize us, as well
as part of us in it somewhere. So, the Garfield eating the book stood for how much i like
Garfield, plus how much I didn't like academics. :) The green object is actually an empty
Mountain Dew bottle because I love to drink it. The pencil is obviously for
drawing, and the CD player is for my love for music. This was actually the project that brought
about the death of that CD player, as well. It's many hours under a light must have fried its
circuits. The CD inside it is actually dc Talk's "Jesus Freak" album. That was one
of the only CDs that I could use the top of to reflect my eye, plus it symbolized how I
am, myself, a "Jesus freak."
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