Initial Ideas - Mask - Orientation Week

Initial Ideas for 'Wearing a Mask of Yourself'

My initial ideas for the mask brief was to explore my feelings and emotions that I have experienced during the first week of moving to university and starting the Illustration course. I began to think about feelings of being nervous or shy and this led me to looking at timid animals such as deer. 
Another idea I explored was the idea of exaggerating features on the face such as the eyes to further put emphasis on the idea of feeling timid and anxious about the unknown events ahead. 
I explored the possibility of using my red hair as a feature to define myself in my mask, however I came to the conclusion that I wanted my emotions and feelings to be the defining feature for the piece.
Through experimenting with drawing and looking at colour, I came to my final idea which was to combine the deer features with the large eyes suggesting the idea of feeling timid and alert, emotions in which I have felt during the first week of university.