Self-Portrait

“Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?”

- Pablo Picasso

I don't know Pablo, I personally was just trying to have fun when working on my first ever self portrait (hence the eccentric pose).

I could sit here and come up with a story for the whys of this image (something along the lines of: unveiling the inner self, since I always thought the end result looked like I was lifting a mask off my face); but being completely honest I don't remember any concept behind this one.

What I do remember though is that it was the result of a happy accident.

Somewhere in the process of making the illustration I remember clicking and dragging where I wasn't supposed to, I liked so much the effect it created that I just ran with it and made everything else flow from there.

Little did I know the monster of offsetting that was being born that day, since it became one of my most used and abused graphical elements expanding through my personal works.