Portraits Part 2 - Initial Idea

In this unit, we have been told that we are allowed to manipulate our images opposed to our previous portrait project where we was only allowed to use the raw file. At first I struggled to think of an idea that I could pursue. After a short while I began to develop an idea about nature and nurture and how the people who are around us most seem to affect our personalities, dress sense and outlook on life. My original plan was to choose my closest friends at university and select what I think is the most outstanding and interesting feature on them appearance wise and put all of the features on one person through the use of Photoshop. For example, I could use Alice's ear as she has a lot of piercings in it whereas a lot of people don't, making her prominent feature her ear. The same could be used for Jacob's goatee or tattoo's, each are very well known features of what makes Jacob who he is. I liked this idea until another similar idea was suggested to me which was to do a series of self portraits trying to dress as my closest friends and try to make myself look as much like them as possible to symbolise how they have each had an impact on my personality, shaping me to be the type of person I am today. I feel like this idea could work very well especially as luckily I have friends who have their own very distinct dress sense which would show a substantial difference in each portrait picture taken.