Including Single Project

I believe it is very important even for a portfolio that concentrates on advertising mainly, to include personal projects. It make the artist more interesting and versatile.

My project is a self-portrait. For various reasons, most artists produce a self-portrait of themselves at some point of their career. Some artists may only make a self-portrait because of promotional reasons, others may do so because they seek to express their feelings.

To be honest, when I decided to create a self-portrait of myself, I had rather practical reasons in mind. I do not have to ask somebody else to pose and can change my mind as often as it suits me. The planned morphing will also look more realistic, than if I took pictures from various people, for example. However, the more I thought about actually doing it, the more questions and issues came up. So far, I have only tried to find out what the artists tries to express. I believed that I needed to observe the feelings of the audience when looking at the portrait. What about the artist? What does he feel when looking at his self-portrait? What does he feel when seeing an audience of strangers looking at the portrait? Does it not feel intimidating or even embarrassing to reveal such an inevitably intimate piece?

 

Special Features

There are a few elements I would like to include to make the site look more original.

First of all, there is a butterfly formed out of the two 'e' letters from easelly, which flies after the cursor. It can also be seen as favicon next to the URL. It kind of became like a logo.

All pictures and even the menu is on snippets of paper. That gives a more distinctive look as well. It is also less sleek and rather more traditional.

Thumbnails are placed at most scenes in different layouts. They do not display the images fully, but only reveal a little bit. That makes the user probably more interested, so  you get encouraged to click on the thumb.

Because the look is not at all sleep and "tidy", I wanted to use a more alternative font. Which font could be more personal than my own handwriting? Exactly, so I wrote everything I wanted to be displayed at the page down, scanned it and traced it in Illustrator. The result really pleased me.