Big Self Portrait

Creativity: Your work is definitely distinct from others considering that it involves not only rendering digitally but also creating emotion with your own facial expression.
Execution: I would give 10 out of 10 for this. You successfully imitated the emotional feature of the original work, as well as use photoshop to recreate the process the original artist used, such as small grids or painting techniques.
Context: Although it looks like a very simple work, you didn't simply imitate his work. You analyzed the intention and style of the original artist and tried to incorporate the ideas into your work, creating your own work.
Documentation: Your documentation was easy to read and very interesting too. I really enjoyed your description of the artist, his work, and your interpretation as a whole.

Creativity: The work is a recreation of Chuck Close's original work, but a great recreation nonetheless. I like the use of gridlines to imitate the modular nature of the original work.

Execution: Although the scale of size is completely different, I think you successfully expressed the same emotions as Chuck did in his original work. Great job!

Context: This work shows understanding of the themes that Chuck Close wanted to underline in his work. You mentioned that you wanted your painting to be specific to the life of a student, so one criticism I have is that the digital recreation does not have anything that is distinctly "student".

Documentation: The documentation was very clear and easy to understand.

Your recreation of Close's work would definitely strike me as superrealistilc, as Close's portrait of himself would, and therefore I think you captured his work's themes and styles very well. And I think it's a very creative idea to use your own image as your digital reproduction of the original work, because it shows well how you interpret his work in your own way. You photoshopped and edited your photo to match the effects of the original portrait of Close, and I think you did well emulating his style, even though I do agree with you, that the texture and levels of details aren't quite the same between the two. However, that's what makes your recreation appealing because it's a modern way of expressing what Close was trying to express, using modern technologies such as photoshop. You explained your ideas and analyzed Close's work very clearly, and thus it was a pleasant experience for me reading your post. Good job!

The research and process were excellently documented, and that makes the detail and work that went into the final product evident for the viewer. The image you created is compelling and I actually appreciate the raw artifacts that the camera created.

Really nice documentation, and the image is striking. I love the subtle grid texture you added.