Self Portrait Illustration
This project was called the Self Illustration Project. In this project we had to choose a picture of our self that we would want to draw out in Adobe Illustrator. The things I like best about this project was the making of the body. I thought it was really fun using the pen tool layer over layer trying to trace out what was in our picture, I struggled a little bit but it was fun to do. I also learned a lot using the pen tool and that if I was having trouble with curving the lines I could just click the point I was on to avoid it being all weird. Challenging wise was definitely the shading. I worked hard to shade my facial features, shirt shadows, and hair shadow. In the end (even though very challenging) I got it done and it made the picture look really nice. If I could make any changes, I would probably focus more on the face and add a lot more detail or maybe even change the skin tone. I had a really hard time finding a skin tone that fit so I just chose this darker one because I was taking too much time on the color than the actual picture. Overall this project was really fun and I'd love to do it again.