In order to accurately create a sense of likeness in my portrait, I had to focus on techniques that represented both what I look like and what I am like. To begin, I aimed to make my portrait realistic through the use of tone and shading to portray the true aspects of my face. One aspect that I clearly had to focus on to accurately portray this was the shaded area that covered part of my face. Although it may not be entirely clear, I feel that with the use of tone and shading knowledge from our previous lessons, I was able to somewhat include this shaded area, without losing the effect of my overall painting. By keeping tone and shading in mind, I was able to recognize and depict where the light was coming from, and what effect this had on my portrait. Along with this, I wanted the audience to understand what I am like; going deeper beyond the surface of what someone may assume from what I look like. The use of wavy and smooth lines with different shades of blue in my background allowed me to attempt to best express me, although, still allowing some freedom to the audience to perceive this as they wish, as I do not directly state what my background portrays in me. This technique was inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's 1889 self portrait. He included this technique throughout his portrait as a unique and appealing style of painting that I felt truly inspired what I was aiming for. The last aspect that I believed honestly allowed me to portray likeness in my painting was how I represented perspective. In my particular portrait, I was faced with a challenging angle that the photo was taken, and that I had to recreate. However, during previous lessons, we practiced these different angles and how significant proportion is in realistic paintings. For example, when we practiced skull drawings, although the main aim was to develop our skills on drawing skulls, we were also able to discover skills in practicing drawing and sketching angles from different view points, making sure to achieve accurate proportion depending on the viewpoint. In this painting, I believe my knowledge of proportion and perspective allowed me to accurately depict a realistic viewpoint that also allowed the audience to better understand the "looks like" aspect of me. Overall, I believe that with the use of three main technical skills, I was accurately able to create a true depiction of likeness in my portrait painting.