Long Hair Stress

Long Hair Stress, a black-and-white stippled drawing of four overlapping self-portraits with different expressions, connected by long flowing hair
Long Hair Stress
Year
2026
Dimensions (w × h)
8 in × 9 in
Materials
Fineliner Pen on Drawing Paper

Long Hair Stress is about not being able to decide if I want to keep my long hair. It sounds like a small problem, but cutting it off would feel final. I used several photos of myself with different stressed expressions to show the same question repeating in my head: Do I like it? What would I look like without it? What if I regret it? As I drew with a fineliner pen, the hair became the thing tying all of the faces together and trapping them in the same thought.

Tags

  • Pen
  • Paper
  • Drawing
  • AP Drawing Portfolio
  • Self Reference
  • Stippling
  • Experimentation
  • Art School Portfolio Selections