Five Friends
This is a series of expressionistic portrait drawings of my close friends from high school. I took the reference photos I used to draw each friend during a single Zoom call to celebrate one friend’s 20th birthday on March 29th, 2020. In this series, I explore digital connectedness as well as my admiration for my female friends, who are unafraid to genuinely be themselves. I hand drew each individual portrait, in a continuous contour line style, on paper and then used Photoshop to add color to the pieces. I wanted to capture each of their different personalities with their expressions and the colors I used.