AP ART PORTFOLIO

Here's a brief explanation.  When talking about the artistic movement manifestos and how they could probably benefit from more artistic restrictions, I was lead to think back on my AP art portfolio I had to submit.  The first twelve works had to be noticeably similar while still showing progression.
I maintained continuity with the following restrictions:

• I always matched up the eye line, and the rest of the face the best I could.
• Both people were always of the same gender.
• The two people I used were supposed to have a similar connection to me and usually had a connection to each other.
• The mode of creating these pieces was consistent.  I would cut out one to four woven sections at a time, draw/color that section and then move on to the next square (or not square).
• The two subjects had to be making a similar face.
• I only did drawings of people who were looking at me head on.
• All the pictures were done in color pencil.
• I personally took all the pictures.

I showed progression in the following ways:

• I was particular with how I used color, starting from black and white, progressing through color and later purposefully coloring certain skin/hair sections a color that does not match their flesh tone, but even this I did with purpose using either complimentary, neighboring, primary or tertiary colors and ending by using a combination of all the different color patterns used previously.
• The patterns used to weave the drawings changed until coming full circle and being woven as people would normally undertake such a project.
• For most of the pictures, I would purposefully not weave properly certain portions of the subject to give emphasis to that facial feature.

I started off by taking a picture of two people (in this case adopted brothers) and I cut up the pictures and wove the pieces together.

                          

This one I photocopied because I was it was to be done in pencil only.

                          

These next two show how close I got to the actual photos.  The one directly below has the other person erased out of the picture.

                             

The next twelve works were supposed to show that there is a variety of things I can do.  They do not correlate exactly to the movement manifesto, but I thought I'd include them because they were part of my portfolio.