Likes and dislikes painted across a character's face

I painted this character's face with a combination of his most favourite food, bacon and egg sandwiches, and the food that he hates the most, tomatoes. This portrays both his likes and his dislikes next to each other. This is like a small scale snippet of his personality plastered across his face for the world to see.

 

I'm really pleased with this, except for the bacon and egg sandwich aspect. Without me saying it's bacon and egg sandwiches you would never know it's bacon and egg sandwiches. To improve this I will try separating the sandwich elements apart, and then paint it back on from a birds eye view, so you can clearly see the different elements.

Models: Elisa, Lari. This is a really bold, strong image, which is emphasised by the black and white quality of the photograph.

Taking inspiration from Johannes Stotter

This is one of Johannes Stotter's pieces, where he has painted the model to blend into the cracked ground, so that you have to look carefully to see that it's a person. The only characteristics that you can immediately identify of being human are the facial features, but even then they blend in rather well. I want to adapt this idea for my own designs, making the pattern on my characters face blend into the background. I could also apply this pattern and idea to other areas of the body such as the hands, which would blend into the background easier being flatter. I will experiment with pencil crayoned background, acrylic background and also actual object background, to see which works best and blending in.