Confidence Project

For my confidence project, I decided to take an assignment from a class that I took in 2021 and revamp it. The assignment was to make an abstract image of a person. I chose Xena. I loved how everything turned out originally except for her face. So for this project I decided to try to fix it. Back in 2021 when I was creating this, I thought I could make the face look good, but after a million attempts, I gave up. I told myself I couldn't do it. That I had tried and failed at it enough times that it was going to have to stay as is because I had to turn it in. I could've gone back to it after the due date and tried to fix it just for myself, but I said nope. Fast forward to this project and me finally deciding to fix it. Going into this, I kept telling myself I could do it. I thought because it's been 5 years and my skills have evolved that I would be able to do it and that it would look great and I would finally be happy with it. I said to myself "you've got this". I don't know how many attempts I made before I was mentally back at square one and telling myself "nope. you can't do it. give up." Nothing I tried was working and I honestly wanted to cry. I would walk away for a bit and then an idea would hit me and I'd be right back at " oh wait, maybe I can do this". Then I'd be ready to quit again when that idea flopped. It was a lot of back and forth- I can. I can't. I've gotta keep going. Nope, I quit. It was ridiculous. I would like to say that the Final Version I have here is the actual final version- but I don't think it is. Someday I might come back to it again because I'm still not entirely happy with it, but for now- this is it.