Self Portrait – Week 1

This is my self-portrait.
My first thought was about which shapes to use to create the hair. My initial plan was to use lines, but then I was worried that filling out the final hair shape would become an issue. So, after some research, I found the beginShape() and endShape() method using vertices.
I proceeded to sketch out a rough desired shape on a piece of paper (as shown below),

then went on to coding and figuring out where each vertex should be.
This included a lot of hardcoding and needed a lot of messing around with the positions, but it was, in my opinion, easier to hardcode in this case specifically, since there were a lot of points/vertices to consider.
The shape I started with was the hair. The head shape (ellipse) and neck(rectangle) followed, and then I added another shape to cover the top of the head with more hair.
I kept the background, the eyes, mouth, and nose simple, by using basic shapes and colors. And I finally decided to add some “animation”, by making each eye close or the mouth smile if the mouse pointer hovers over them.

void setup(){
  size (400,400);
}

void draw(){
  //background color
  background(0,153,153);
  
  //drawing the hair first to be on the bottom layer
  fill(53,36,23);
  stroke(0);
  strokeWeight(1.5);
  beginShape();
  vertex(222,76);
  vertex(192,50);
  vertex(130,48);
  vertex(40,126);
  vertex(68,122);
  vertex(58,174);
  vertex(82,208);
  vertex(57,250);
  vertex(57,350);
  vertex(310,350);
  vertex(310,204);
  vertex(329,225);
  vertex(314,114);
  vertex(270,74);
  vertex(222,76);
  endShape();
  
  //drawing the face shape and the neck
  fill(208, 167, 136);
  stroke(0);
  strokeWeight(1.5);
  rect(175,170,45,160);
  ellipse(190,180,160,200);
  
  //drawing the hair piece to cover the top of the head
  fill(53,36,23);
  noStroke();
  beginShape();
  vertex(110,79);
  vertex(110,170);
  vertex(205,115);
  vertex(280,170);
  vertex(277,79);
  endShape();
  
  //drawing the nose:
  stroke(0);
  strokeWeight(3);
  noFill();
  line(180, 210,178,220);
  line(178,220,188,220);
  
  //drawing the mouth without a smile:
  strokeWeight(5);
  stroke(205, 115, 115);
  line(180, 245, 200, 245);
  //making the mouth smile:
  if (mouseX > 180-5 && mouseX < 200+5){
    if (mouseY > 245-5 && mouseY < 245 +5){
      //this covers the previous mouth with the skin color
      strokeWeight(5);
      stroke(208, 167, 136);
      line(180, 245, 200, 245);
      //this draws on the new smile
      strokeWeight(5);
      stroke(205, 115, 115);
      bezier(170,240,180,250,215,240,215,240);
    }
  }
  
  //drawing the eyes open:
  noStroke();
  fill(255);
  ellipse(160, 180, 35, 35);
  ellipse(220, 180, 35, 35);
  fill(155, 115, 84);
  ellipse(160, 180, 23, 23);
  ellipse(220, 180, 23, 23);
  noStroke();
  fill(0);
  ellipse(160, 180, 10, 10);
  ellipse(220, 180, 10, 10);
 
  //closing the left eye:
    if(mouseX > 160-(35/2) && mouseX < 160+(35/2))
  {
    if(mouseY > 180-(35/2) && mouseY < 180+(35/2))
    {
      //this covers the previous open eye
      fill(208, 167, 136);
      ellipse(160, 180, 38, 38);
      //this draws on the closed eye
      strokeWeight(5);
      stroke(0);
      line(150, 180, 170, 180);
    }
  }
  //closing the right eye:
  if(mouseX > 220-(35/2) && mouseX < 220+(35/2))
  {
    if(mouseY > 180-(35/2) && mouseY < 180+(35/2))
    {
      //this covers the previous open eye
      fill(208, 167, 136);
      ellipse(220, 180, 38, 38);
      //this draws on the closed eye
      strokeWeight(5);
      stroke(0);
      line(210, 180, 230, 180);
    }
  }
}