In the first week of the course we have been using the
program illustrator, from this program I have achieved to use a more range of
tools, even though I used the program last year when I did Media in A levels,
by doing this piece of work I have been able to get a better understanding of
the program and produce a piece of work I didn’t think I could do.
How I created my work was by first taking a picture of
myself on the mac and uploading it on adobe illustrator CS6. Once I did that I then
started to get to no the tools a bit more by experimenting with them on the
picture. Once I got use to them I then
put my picture in place to were I wanted it on the screen which was in the
centre of the page, one I did that, I grabbed the pen tool and started on the
to go round my hair, when I went all the way round I got the eye dropper tool
and matched it to my hair colour so that I could just colour it in a paint form
style( as you can see from the picture on the right).
After I finished the hair I started to work on the facial
features like the colour of the face, this was very tricky because of the light
my face was different types of shade so I had to use the eye dropper tool quite
a lot to get the shade I wanted. Also the eyes took me a long time because it
was tricky to get the pen tool in the right shape. Then once I finished the
eyes I used the straight line tool and the arc tool to do my nose, it was
really hard to choose which type of nose fitted my face but I ended up using
the whole nose instead of just the nostril’s. I also used the straight-line
tool for the eye lashes for my eyes, this part was really fiddly but the
outcome was worth it. Then I moved on by doing my lips, I didn't want my lips to be all one colour because there was a bit of shadow on them so I again used the eye dropper tool and got a darker shade of pink for the middle part.
As you can see in the picture on the
above, you can tell that my neck doesn’t fit with the picture; this is because
I had to use layers and had to switch and move layers up and down so that they
fitted the picture. Once I messed about with illustrator and corrected it I
started on my clothing doing the same technique I did with my facial features
and hair, using the pen tool and the eyedropper tool. ( as you can see from the picture on the right).
Finally I did the background of my self
portrait, I didn’t so that you can’t see the people behind me and also so that
I’m the main focus the first thing you see as you look to the picture. I made
the background blur by going on effects at the top then go down to blur and
then press on Gaussian blur. ( as you can see from the picture on the left).
I did try to use a range of tools but
for this task I could only use a limited amount, because I still need to get
more use to the program, but the tools I have used I have found that they are
more easier to use than when I first used them.
Pen Tool Eyedropper Tool Arc Tool
