selfportrait finished...

here are the finished one for my self portrait. the first one is tracing over top of a photo, and the bottom is the one i changed over. i used my own home made patterns. they were fun to play around with. i guess i'll upload the original pattern later. in illustrator the details in the pattern got simplified.. i should have made the patterns in illustrator. anyways, i guess for the 2nd one, i just wanted to just make almost everything purple, purple is my favorite color. i thought it'd be interesting to see me with out glasses. i have been wearing glasses for almost little over 10 years now. i might get contacts later on so that should be interesting. i thought what if i had blue/purple hair. i really want to dye my hair some different color, i usually dye it like different shades of brown, and i tried to dye my hair blond one time. that didn't turn out right. so i think i might wait till i find a good place to do my hair, or go visit korea again and do my hair there or something. i guess i put a fan in there because originally i was holding uno cards, but they looked like fans. i like those hand held fans, they are pretty cool and amazing. i think i might have over done with the patter, but i like it. i think i added the hair piece in there, simple shape, but i think it'd have been better then using the pattern or like the one i tried to use in my works in process one. the hair was kinda hard to figure out, i mean i tried to add in the highlights and dark parts, but i think having it might give more distraction? i'm not sure, but not having anything, makes it interesting i think. it kinda balances with the whole busy background and fan with the simple plain surface of the hair. i think overall i did alright job on it.