Week1 : Self Portrait

Description

Make a self-portrait from basic shapes using simple drawing functions learned in class. The basic shapes includes but not limited to line, ellipse, rectangle, arc, and circle.

Process

The first step I took in drawing the self-portrait was to sketch the portrait. Having a visual of what I wanted to draw improve my pace overall.

In this project, I realized how useful rectangles can be. In drawing my face, I could have used an ellipse omitting my prominent jaws but I used a rectangle curving the bottom left and bottom right to properly show my jaws. Setting the rectangle mode to center, in the beginning, reduced significantly the time I would have spent experimenting with the right coordinates to use.

The top-to-down execution of Processing code helped a lot in coloring the portrait and in hiding unwanted parts of the shapes used. The execution made drawing and coloring my head, hands, and neck possible.

Using variables played an important role in centering the pupil for the eyes and the nose, eyes, mouth, and eyebrows for the face.

Challenges

The first challenge I faced was drawing my hair. The initial plan was to use an arc on top of my face and fill it with small black circles to depict afro hair. After hours of failing to fill the arc with small circles, I decided to used curly lines which also failed. Finally, I settled on using an ellipse and filling it with black color.

Another challenge I faced was centering my nose. Working with triangle function was hard, I had to read the reference and try out a lot of options before I finally got the nose in the center of the face

Last but not least, coloring my hands was a challenge because filling the torso which was a single arc with the shirt color filled the hand with the same color. I duplicated the arc for the torso and reduced its starting and stopping angles so that filling the color of the shirt won’t affect that of the hands.

Final Work

Code

int centerX;
int centerY;
float faceCenterX;
float faceCenterY;
float earWidth = 20;
float earHeight = 40;

void setup() {
  size(640, 480);
  background(180, 235, 52)
  centerX = width / 2;
  centerY = height / 2;
  faceCenterX = centerX;
  faceCenterY = centerY -100;
};

void draw() {
    stroke(0,0,0);
  rectMode(CENTER);
     fill(197, 140, 133); // skintone
   //neck
   rect(centerX,centerY, 55, 55);
   
   // ears
   ellipse(centerX-80 , centerY-100, earWidth, earHeight);
   ellipse(centerX +80, centerY-100, earWidth, earHeight);

  
   // hair 
    fill(0,0,0);
    ellipse(centerX,centerY-150,180,150);
   
  
   // face
   fill(197, 140, 133); // skintone
   rect(centerX,centerY-100, 150, 150, 3, 6, 50, 50);

   // eyebrows
   arc(faceCenterX-50,faceCenterY - 30, 50, 15, radians(193), radians(347));
   
   arc(faceCenterX+50,faceCenterY -30, 50, 15, radians(193), radians(347));
   
   // mouth
   
   fill(184, 105, 106);
   ellipse(faceCenterX,faceCenterY + 40, 60, 30);
   line(faceCenterX-30, faceCenterY + 40 , faceCenterX +30 , faceCenterY+40);
   
   
   // eyes
   fill(255,255,255); // eye color
   ellipse(faceCenterX -50, faceCenterY -20, 30, 10 );
            // pupil
           fill(0,0,0); // pupilcolor
           ellipse(faceCenterX - 50 , faceCenterY -20, 10, 10 );
           
   fill(255,255,255); //eye color 
   ellipse(faceCenterX + 50, faceCenterY -20, 30, 10 );
           // pupil
           fill(0,0,0); //pupil color
           ellipse(faceCenterX + 50 , faceCenterY -20, 10, 10 );
   
   
   fill(197, 140, 133); // skintone
   
   // nose
   triangle(faceCenterX-20,faceCenterY +20, faceCenterX, faceCenterY-20, 20+faceCenterX, faceCenterY+20);
   
   // torso

   //hands
   fill(197, 140, 133); // skintone
   arc(centerX,centerY+250,350,400,radians(160),radians(400));
   
   //shirt
   fill(43,58,222); //shirt color
   arc(centerX,centerY+200,350,400,radians(180),radians(360));
   line(centerX -170,centerY+150, centerX+170, centerY+150);
   stroke(43,58,222);
   rect(centerX,centerY+160, 250, 200);
 
   
}