
Title: Self Portrait Raster
Semester/Year: Fall 2023
Software: Adobe Photoshop
The images I chose are images of where I’m from and have lived (Brisbane, Australia and Manhattan), with some animals which are also from there. The background is meant to look like a comic because they’re a big part of my life. In the foreground is an easel with a “painting” of myself on it, representing how I like art. In total I used seven images. I was inspired by the demo, which was a New York pigeon sitting on a building. This led me to want to make an image mainly based on where I’ve lived and to include animals that live there. The most challenging part about this project was thinking of new ways to add images, or how to use new effects. I ended up giving the rat laser eyes to try and use more effects.
Image Credits
“Australian Magpie” by Dupont, Bernard. Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic. WikiMedia Commons. November 1, 2000. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Australian_Magpie_%28Gymnorhina_tibicen%29_%2810087114694%29.jpg
“Christmas beetle” by Chuq. Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. WikiMedia Commons. December 5, 2020. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christmas_beetle.jpg
I used this image by removing the background and rotating it.
“New York City skyline” by Nagel, Norbert. Attribution-ShareAlike Unported. WikiMedia Commons. May 7, 2006. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_City_skyline_07.jpg
I edited this image by removing the background and adding a filter.
“Paper texture background, old yellow design.” CC0 1.0 Universal. Rawpixel. https://images.rawpixel.com/image_1300/cHJpdmF0ZS9sci9pbWFnZXMvd2Vic2l0ZS8yMDIyLTA1L3B4MTA1NzQwNC1pbWFnZS1qb2I2MzAtYV8xLmpwZw.jpg
“Rodent Mammals Rat Mouse” by 7768740. Content License. Pixabay. January 22, 2018. https://pixabay.com/photos/rodent-mammals-rat-mouse-animals-3095272/
“Skylines of Brisbane in winter misty morning seen from Kangaroo Point, Queensland” by Kgbo. Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. WikiMedia Commons. July 27, 2019. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skylines_of_Brisbane_in_winter_misty_morning_seen_from_Kangaroo_Point,_Queensland_04.jpg
I edited this image by removing the background and adding a filter.
“Spotted lanternflies in BBG” by Rhododendrites. Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. WikiMedia Commons. September 9, 2021. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spotted_lanternflies_in_BBG_%2842943%29.jpg
I changed this image by removing the background.

Title: Cat Portrait Vector
Semester/Year: Fall 2023
Software: Adobe Illustrator
For this project I mainly used the polygon tool to make shapes and combine them to make a face. I thought it’d be easier and more fun to try and create a cat face rather than my own face. The colors are mostly beige and blue, which I think go well together. A lot of the clothing I own is either navy blue or beige. I was mainly inspired by the example of the vector self portrait shown and I wanted to depict a face. The collar has the letter C on it for my name. A challenge I went through was not knowing how to center the C properly. It kept snapping to places that weren’t the center. I think maybe if I changed the text into a shape it would have let me move it to where I wanted it to go. One of the most challenging things that I did solve was how sometimes I would seemingly randomly be on the wrong layer. After a while I realized that when I hit undo I’d sometimes be transported back to a previous layer. This also caused me to edit shapes and paths that I was done editing instead of a new shape that I wanted to create. Once I figured out what was happening I was able to solve my issue.