Week 7: Drawing faces in Illustrator

Introduction to Adobe Illustrator

Our introduction began with a short tutorial and overview of the display in the browser as well as creating a dog.

I only managed to get a few screenshots of the dog process, you can clearly see the basic shapes that make up the face and how it goes on to form the end product

I used some reference and also changed the color scheme to a mix of light and dark blues

The next project was to transfer and colour a portrait sketch, here is one of my friend

I brought the image into photoshop

After adjusting the levels and placing it in illustrator, I moved on to painting

Using the blob brush tool, I started to colour the face, I used red just a bright colour to contrast well with the sketch

I filled in the image and changed to red to a more skin like tone

I pushed the colour layer behind the sketch

I then moved on to the hair and bag straps with the same process

Continuing the process with the clothes

Orange shirt to compliment blue, finished

The next project was using the image trace to reproduce a portrait image, here is the image i'm using

I started by removing the backround

Placed the image in illustrator

Her I image traced the portrait into a dark filter

This is the same image except with a 3 colour filter

Here is the image again with a 9 colour filter

This is the trace I will be working with

I started by using the blob brush tool again to lock in the base face colour

Here is the image with highlights added on to it over the base face layer

Added the rosy cheecks

The dark of the eye and lips were added

This is how it looks so far, haven't finished the hair

the orange of the hair

I also added the pink of the hair in

 Finished

Complete

Conclusion: I don't particularly like the image very much as it just doesn't have a very clean appearance, I can see the relation to the original picture but i'm just not a fan of the style. It is very reminiscent of a pop art piece. I like how the colour contrasts with the black of the image trace, that is quite effective especially in the eyes.