Computer Art Self Portrait Assignment

This project was meant to be a self portrait. It was determined that, after a lengthy in-class discussion, the term "self portrait" applied to any image containing essentially any part of you at all. One person in the class had just his hand on a window sill, with the rest of the image completely unrelated to portraying him at all, and this qualified... Anyway, back to the picture at hand... The background for this image is a picture of the corner of one of the dorms on campus. The photograph of me climbing was to be a chameleon climbing up this same wall. However, I made the first project into a lizard, so I figured I'd do something else. The dragonfly wings and tail thing came from an actual photograph of a dragonfly, snatched from some webstie. Using careful manipulation techniques, I converted me into that thing on the wall there. The ivy you see climbing on the wall was all drawn by hand, using a Wacom drawing tablet. Man did that take forever... I think I like this the least of my four Computer Art projects, but it still came out very well. Did you notice the extra set of arms behind the wings?

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