Title: Self Portraying Collage
Semester/Year: Fall 2023
Program Used: Photoshop
This picture takes places in Brazil, my favorite place to go on vacation to explore nature, and enjoy delicious fruits and dishes. I chose this picture, because it’s my personal favorite photo, it reminds me of a nice place, and I wanted to show the visualization of my perception of what’s going on in the picture. I’ve used two gradient maps and masking in order to balance the two in abstract. The photos of the sushi and hotdogs are my own, and they’re also some of my favorite foods. The most challenging aspect of this portrait was getting the lighting right on every other subject, such as the food, or the subjects in the foreground.
Title: Self Portraying Vector
Semester/Year: Fall 2023
Program Used: Illustrator
For this program, I had shapes and abstraction in mind while again using a spectrum of my favorite colors. This segment of the self portrait project was really fun, it felt like I summarized myself with the vectorized portrait; through color, style, and emotion. Some of my challenges for this project included figuring out how to trace over a sketch, and figuring out how to outline the fingers without making the lines look off-putting. As for the process, I primarily used the shape, and pen tool.
