Re-Create Your Face

This is an assignment from Wrapped Emotions:

We are going to get more comfortable with ourselves. We are going to get to know our own face, appreciate it, recognize it and love it.

Whoa, get back here! Don't run away from this prompt screaming "Nooooo!!!" I'm in it with you and my face has seen better years.Hold your camera at arm's length and shoot a photo of your face. Oh hush up, yes, get that close. Don't expect it to look good, unless you're twenty years old it will probably look horrible. But we're all here together.

This is the original picture I got.

Just face it, this is what everyone is looking at so breath deeply and take it.

Upload the photo to your computer and with whatever photo editing software you are using de-saturate it, convert it to black and white. Lighten the image if necessary, make sure the image isn't too dark.

Print a copy. Oh horrors! I know.Now take your pencil and trace over it...over and over and over. Every feature, every curve and line...trace over it. This is you.

After working with your printed image, talk about the emotions experienced while doing this.

Ok so this was fun. I knew I was going to use soft lines because I feel delicate. However when I did this I kept going over and over the same lines with my pencil so I could see them. I think the wrinkles I have show happiness. I was happy with what turned out. I think I look pretty. So why I had to go a step further I don't know. But I decided to try to trace the picture. Very difficult only using a lamp light and holding up the paper. So is this what I will look like in another 30 years? Maybe I should have left good alone, but curiousity got the best of me. I look old in this picture. I know one thing...when I'm much older my hair will not look like a 37 year old. It may be scary, but this was a fun exercise.