Tuesday, 6 December 2016

December 6th- Vector Self Portraits

Today you will begin a mini assignment creating a monochromatic self portrait with vectors! I will give you a demonstration using the pen tool today in class.

Step 1: Take a selfie on photobooth

Step 2: Open the file in Illustrator

Step 3: Begin tracing yourself with the pentool (use the pencil tool and blob brush if you find that to be easier). Make sure that the fill is set to black.

Step 4: Uncollapse the layers so that you can periodically hide the jpeg and see how your illustration is coming along.

*This is tedious. You will have the full class to work on this portrait, so take your time and do this as accurately as possible. It will make a great profile picture when you are done!

Here is a tutorial to help if you get stuck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny-tnZGP-Zk

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