Blue Self-Portrait

Entry for the Draw Yourself Blue Contest [link] held by

As the contest requires the image to be created in the color blue I put some thought into why. There are two common conceptions of the symbolic meaning of blue - sadness or happiness [link] , so I chose happiness.

I drew my self-portrait as a caricature to add more emotion, and have something more unique.

I used pen and ink (Dip pen with Esterbrook 905 Radio nib) to create the lines on Canson Bristol. I then scanned and colored the image digitally in Photoshop CS4.