a self reflective course!

As is tradition in NID, we have a course known as 'science and liberal arts' every semester. This post is regarding one of the earliest SLAs(science and liberal arts) we had with a very lovable faculty!
We were told to illustrate two self portraits which could encompass the way we feel about ourselves and the world.

All three portraits had me sewing my very own blanket of dreams, full of imaginary beings and environments, cordoned off my the outside world. Almost like i'm floating in my very own bubble unaware of the world which waits beyond it.

using junk material to create a self portrait, i used some punched put shapes from
the animation lab paper puncher. cut up a tetra pack of Tropicana apple
 and scavenged the textile studio for some cloth scraps and yarn.

an earlier version of the portrait, just a simple illustration
inked on paper from which i took que to make the junk portrait.
This was the very first attempt at a self portrait for the course.

one of my first digital paintings, we had to pick a
certain painting style for the very same self portrait,
 i tried to somewhat work with surrealism,
but it seems more real than surreal no?

Thanks for looking :)