This was a one-week brief on the theme of Identity. We were given the rest of that Tuesday to get some ideas together, and then work on a final piece in the following week. I tried to illustrate a concept of identity as opposed to something personal - that way, it's more of a challenge and if successful, anyone could relate to it. Identity is a very common theme in illustration, and I wanted to approach it differently.
Bar a few physical differences and genetics, we're all born the same. We're innocent, we know nothing of life aside from very basic instincts of "need food, oxygen and warmth". When we're young babies, we don't even know what fear is or how to feel it until we're about a year old. We're a black and white "clean slate", ready to be coloured by our experiences and what's ahead - and we sit there and absorb it all, and it influences where we go in life. It shapes our opinions and views.
I deliberately had the person (child? Adult? Teenager? Male or female? I tried to make it quite ambiguous) sit with their back to the viewer, so that anyone could find it easier to project their own image onto them.
Very deep (for me, at least).
