2024 | Sole-Author | Ongoing
I spend a significant portion of my life in video calls. Over time, I started sketching the people I was speaking with. I did so quickly, directly, and without the pressure of producing a finished image. What started as a private habit became a structured practice: drawing one hundred portraits of people encountered through screen-based interaction.
The project is divided into two halves. The first fifty portraits were done in black and white, exploring line, proportion, and trying to convey personality through minimal information. The second fifty introduce color, shifting the focus toward mood, presence, and the subjective interpretation of skin tone, lighting, and expression.
Taken together, the portraits are less about likeness than about perception—how faces are read, remembered, and abstracted when filtered through webcams, latency, and partial attention. The repetition foregrounds variation: small differences in posture, gaze, and mark-making accumulate into a broader study of individuality under constrained conditions.
100 Portraits sits between documentation and interpretation. It aims to treat everyday digital encounters as a site for observation, and drawing as a tool for slowing down and noticing what is usually passed over in real time.
Fifty portraits in black and white
Fifty portraits in color