I decided to use Herman Lee for my artist comparison. The first piece I saw by him was a series on the Great Romans and they were portraits. He has five pieces in this series that contain five different Roman characters. These are portraits of a person in a vector/illustration style. I decided to use this as a starting point for my piece. Instead of portraying a prominent figure in our society today, I chose to do it myself. Making a portrait of yourself is harder for me to handle than making a portrait of another person. Making a portrait of yourself is difficult for me because it involves understanding which side of you, as a person, you want to be seen or how you want to be seen. You have to show a part of who you are as a person and be quite vulnerable in the eyes of the viewers, so I decided to step out of my comfort zone for this piece. Herman Lee's Great Romanians series intrigued me because all the portraits have a dispersive use of vibrant colors, which is similar to my work. The vibrant colors allow for a sense of playfulness and randomness. The way he placed the colors gives the feeling that he had fun while making them, as well as giving the feeling of having paint smeared on the piece randomly, even though it's all done electronically. The work is “full of colors of all kinds that are intended to make your head spin (Osnat Tzadok: 2002-2010)”. The portraits he took for this series are close up and include only the head, along with the neck. Some other portraits he took also included the tops of their clothes. Herman Lee does all of his work on the computer and most of it is in vector/illustrator format. Since I was stepping out of my comfort zone for this piece, I wanted to show my…middle of paper….h what the world is looking for. The only difficult part about using someone so new to this industry is that not much, if anything, is said about them. It's a shame that he doesn't give any motivation or intent regarding his pieces on his site. He only has the titles of his pieces and much of them presupposes what he means by what he is trying to imply. "In trying to decipher the painting in this way, I was doing what I suppose most people do when they look at art, looking for a narrative or at least enough clues that I could begin to piece together a story from what I was seeing. In all art, from figurative to abstract, you tend to look for correspondences with what you know; even before learning the title (Michael Milburn: 2009)”, which means I was trying to “find something recognizable in (Michael Milburn: 2009)” the Great Romanians.