The cube portrait is a self-portrait which I used the media of pencils, paint, and paper to create. Skills I learned included creating a realistic representation of myself using watercolors, and creating shapes which interrupt the consistency of this realism. Main art elements I used are lines, value, form, color, shape, and space. I used lines to compose the curves in my face and light and dark values to show depth. And I showed the form of my face with the response to the values and lines. I used color in the watercolor I painted it with, which reflected the realistic appearance and variations in my skin which I was representing. I used shape to break up the realistic composition in my face. I use space to separate these shapes from the face, as they never overlap, to show distance between the interruptions and the realism. The combination of the skills and art elements express the idea of realism being interrupted by something unreal. Symbolically it could be seen as a distorted self-image or a realistic perspective being distorted by imagination or illogical thoughts. Or it can be seen as the pieces which make up the whole of a composition, both of the art and the person.