Self-portrait
The final project for the 2D design class this term is to create a self-portrait. It was expected that one would create layered shapes that are then colored to create an image that looks much like oneself.
I decided to go in a different direction. Instead of using shapes to color my design, I colored it:
As you can tell, these projects take time. I hand added each part to the design slowly. Overall, however, I’m quite happy with the result.
April 11th, 2007 at 5:13 am
I think I lost ya there, how you make the shapes in the first place?
April 11th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Ah! My apologies. Perhaps I shouldn’t write entries near 2 AM! To create this image I pulled colors off an original photo, then used the brush tool in Illustrator to “paint” the new image. It is essentially like an illustrator version of an actual picture, but one not made by “Live Trace” or similar means. Thus it has more character^^
So yeah, I didn’t really use the layered shapes (that one could create via the pen tool) but the teacher was happy with the final result too, so there we go.
April 11th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Pretty shiny dude! You’ve got some good stuff going on.