Self Portrait

To start this project off I cropped the picture so I would not have so much wall in the background. I then proceeded to work on the eyes using the pen tool and eyedropper tool to make the shapes and color them. I continued to us the same method of using the pen and eyedropper tools on each other part of my face going from the eyes to eyebrows, then the nose.

I got tired of seeing such pasty white skin so I decided to work on the shirt next. After I was done with the shirt I worked on the neck and the rest of the face that I hadn’t done. After i finished the face layer I took on the hair. It took me a while to find out how I wanted to do the hair I tried many different ways of trying to make it look good, but I found that it looked best if I used shapes that were similar to the ones on the rest of the portrait. Then added straighter lines to emphasize the darker and lighter parts of the hair.

Finally I used the gradient tool to create the background of the picture. I chose to use blue and black and have the center of the gradient and the top left corner. The background added a very much needed change to the overall feeling of the photo ie. making it look a bit happier. I also tried having the background black and a dark gray but it made the picture kind of scary or sad and I didn’t like the way that looked. Overall I am happy with how it all turned out and am super happy that it remotely looks somewhat like me.