"I found that my most beneficial artists were the ones in which I took the most inspiration from in helping me develop my own style and way in which I can present a desired emotion in art. These artists are Robert Carter and Yue Minjun. I found that their methods for depicting particular emotions intriguing in the ways in which they used colour, exaggeration, and manipulation of certain elements to create a particular aesthetic. I found Carter the most helpful particularly due to the ways he would present sadness and mental illness by creating realistic depictions of people with their minds seemingly in disrepair. I found that this aesthetic helped me develop my own, being the rainy clouds surrounding the head depicting sadness, as in media, rainy dark days are ways in which sadness can be presented. Throughout all my interpretations and planning I strived to use different medias varying from oil paint, water colour, coloured pencil, markers, and line art pens."

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