vector illustrated portrait

pre-production

When we were assigned this project we were asked to take a picture of ourselves, siblings, or a pet and turn it into a vector portrait. I chose to use a picture of my dog because in that certain picture he had just came back from getting a hair cut and they put a cute bow tie on him. The sun was also shining through the window which made his fur have a variety of colors.We had a choice between an organic vector project and a low poly geometric portraits. I chose to do the low poly geometric portrait, which is when you make tiny triangles on the picture and then fill them will color. I thought that this kind of portrait would look better on an animal than the organic portrait would.

production

My time spent creating in illustrator was very enjoyable. I found making all of the triangles relaxing. While working on this project I became more comfortable with using the pen tool. It was a little hard at first because I didn't know how to stop the line so I would mess up my project. When I found out that you just have to hit return I had a better time making the triangles. At the beginning when I was making the first few triangles I made them all really similar. I later found out that it looks much better zoomed out if you have them facing different directions. I also made the triangles on the main features of my dog like his eyes, nose, mouth, and tongue smaller and the triangles on the rest of his body bigger. So when you looked at the portrait his features would pop out first.

post-production

I'm pleased with how my final product turned out. Something I would change about my design is how I made the triangles on my dogs eyes. I like how I made them smaller then the rest of the portrait but I think I could have made the fur around the eyes colored a little lighter so the black triangles in the eyes would pop more.

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