cartoon portrait

Reflection Questions:  J

 

I think the strongest area of my work was using illustration. I had an easy time manipulating the lines and outlining my character. It was my strongest are because once I got the hang of it, and learned how to use the tools, it became very simple and fun to use. The area of work that can be improved on is coloring the character and using the burning tool to create shadows. I can improve on this by using it more in my work and also playing around with it to see what it can do.

The easy part of this activity was drawing my character and then scanning it into the computer. Drawing my character was easy because I already had a good idea of what I wanted to draw. I wanted to portray who I am and what I look like in my character and I did that by just picturing myself as a person and what I stand for. The difficult part of this activity was making sure the eyes of my character looked even. The eyes themselves took me about a whole class period. For materials in illustrator, I used the pen tool, the add anchor point tool, the quick select tool, and stroke. I used the pen tool and stroke to draw the outline of my character. I used the anchor point tool to make shapes and the quick select tool to manipulate certain parts.

I demonstrated the objective of this activity by drawing a character that represents me and then scanning it into the computer. I then outlined it in illustrator, and in photo shop I then colored my person in and made it look more realistic. If I could do this art activity again, I would re-do the outline of my character because in the middle of doing it I got better at it and learned new things I could with it. And I would also fix the eyes and make them look more realistic.