Self Portrait Illustration: A Junior Self-Portrait Illustration by Courtney Cooper (2011)

For my self portrait illustration I wanted to represent how being dyslexic has both positive and negative affects. Dyslexia is a challenge for many reasons but one in particular is that when it come to academic things, like reading and writing, I am a lot slower at comprehending and I usually do not go the normal way about things that are difficult for me. But having this challenge throughout my life, or at least before I was diagnosed with dyslexia, I had to find different ways of learning in a normal class setting which ended up helping me be more creative in my art work by allowing me to think outside the box. To represent this I drew a picture of a girl but in the style cubism. I chose to draw the girl in cubism to show how I can take an everyday picture and change it so it is more creative and out of the box.