The Meadowlark's Revenge

This is my final art project. The only requirements was that it should be a self-portrait. I've taken some liberties with my appearance but I have roughly the same features here as I do in real life.
I've got eyes, a nose, a mouth and a beard.

It's on a wood panel, about 24x36 inches and I used colored pencils and graphite.
Someone in class asked me if a guy missed the bird and shot me instead. So instead of a long detailed explanation of the symbolism here, I'm just gonna go with that.

A Grid Gone Wrong

This was going to a background for a really cool painting. It was gonna be this half hunched guy coming out from the bottom and it was going to have this neat little opaque grid sprawling across his body. But...




















Instead I ended up painting this over it. This was my first attempt at my final project in art, which is a self-portrait. It is now the backside of a new drawing I'm doing. So thank you for inspiring something better at least.