In this assignment, I tried to incorporate the basic shapes we covered in the first week of the classes. One of the things that captured my attention in the class was how the location of the mouse was integrated into the pieces for the exercises as well as other self-portrait projects I have seen on this blog! So I knew that I really wanted to do that.
In terms of the creative incentive I knew that I didn’t want to make my self-portrait not too human but also not so little. A highlighted experience for me while making this portrait was the fog that would cloud my effort and mind, most of the time, and would require serious and conscious effort to pass that over. Therefore I have made cloud shapes with a combination of multiple ellipses that hovers around the head in the darkness and move to the side when the mouse hovers into the middle.
The biggest challenge for me here was actually finding an idea. I felt that it was hard to choose an idea but also after finding it, it was hard to implement. I could feel while drawing the ellipses that I was uncomfortable with producing the desired shapes with shape functions that were available and for me, it was a big struggle to make the lines meet, and align each time.
The integration of the location of the mouse to the brightening of the background and dispersing of the clouds was a creative choice and compared to the actual drawing of the shapes was not that complicated. I feel that after experiencing these initial struggles with p5js I will be comfortable with creating the art pieces I desire.
Link to p5js:
https://editor.p5js.org/iremnaz/sketches/oxRGnv701