Finished with vector portrait!!!!

I finished my vector portrait. I am so sick of staring at myself! I was very unsure of how to do the hair and I wound up redoing it at least ten times and then I went and looked at other examples where I came up with the idea of black with fuchsia and gray. Then I moved on to the next problem--the background....I had no idea what to even start with, and then I went and looked at the spray paint tool. It is now my hero, my favorite tool. I love it!

Progress on my self portrait

I have to give credit to Mr. Hansen-he is the one that gave me the idea of having the reflection in my sunglasses be of a city. To create that, it has taken me all week. It was really hard to do all of the little buildings and figure out how to do the background behind it. I decided I wanted a sunset behind the buildings, so I did that with the gradient tool. The buildings are darker blues and purples, and I haven't finished putting the yellow windows in yet, but I can do that later on. I really need to work on getting the face shading done, and I still need a nose. But I think that this is a really fun, relaxing project. It definitely tests my patience out.

Starting my Self Portrait

This week I have mainly concentrated on thinking how i would like to do my self portrait project. I have worked in my sketch book a little bit, and I am not really clear on how I want it. I am thinking I would like to do it in black and white, with maybe rainbow colored sunglasses and hair to make a contrast. I have not yet figured how to make things rainbow, so I will have to mess around with Illustrator some more. The pen tool for Illustrator has now become my hero, because it makes it so much easier to trace around things, such as my hair. And I also discovered that it makes life way easier to put things on separate layers, so now I have layers for hair, sunglasses, shape of face, etc. I have a feeling this project is going to take quite awhile to finish.

South Park Reflection

Adobe Illustrator and I do not get along to well, I am afraid. It was very hard to fill in the colors, and I do not like the pen tool. Maybe it just takes some more practice to get the basic skills of learning it. I believe it would have been a little easier with the plug in pen tool, which if I had known about it, I would have used it. This south park character does not look the best, but i tried my hardest and redid it like four times.