Expressive Portrait

This piece is supposed to be for the expressive portrait project, if I remember this one was about making a portrait expressive. So basically for this I took a picture of my sister and made it really bright, and the sand also got really bright. The point was that she was smiling, which usually is an indicator of happiness, which is represented by visually bright backgrounds and themes.

No pattern, singular subject with background behind it, patterns would be technically impossible in this scenario unless something crazy happened that altered the piece. The thing being contrasted is my sister, because being the darkest thing in this picture, it contrasts strongly with the bright sands behind and near her. The thing being emphasized in this picture is my sister being that it's a single subject picture with background behind, and is the only thing you can focus on. It has asymmetrical balance, along with almost every single one of my other works because that's just simpler and happens most often anyways. It has unity because, containing all the other elements of design, the piece feels connected with the brightness and details.

The piece was basically just me trying to figure out what to do and having a picture of my sister, I decided to act on it and came up with this. This picture looks nice in combination with the sands, or at least the effect is when you see the sands almost vanish due to the color near the top of the piece. I have decided to say that this picture doesn't carry any individual message, at least from me, I am sure other people can make their own conclusions and I will just leave them to it.

I felt that this picture was successful as you can find the expression in it, and the background worked with the lighting to develop the effect near the top of the piece. The elements work together because the whole thing, is contrasted, emphasized, contains balance, and has unity. My only gripe is that, it looks kind of bland as you can kind of tell what it is at first glance and won't think anything different of it.