Week 1: Self Portrait

 

Concept:

For my first assignment I tried to make a self portrait of myself by implementing different functions we learnt in class like ellipse, rect, fill etc. but I also tried to add new functions that I discovered like push, pop and rotate to make it easier to create a different variety of shapes. My inspiration for the self portrait was my iconic ‘eyebrows raise face’ because I thought it would be funny. I made the overall color scheme of the portrait to be grey so that it reflects the emotion shown on the face. 

I first tried to figure out what shapes would best fit the idea I had on my sketch, and from that I started by creating the face and hijab around my head:

Even though I had a specific idea at first, I had to adjust a lot of things so that it worked in the end, like when it came to the hijab. At first i just made it into an ellipse but found that i couldn’t layer the bangs with it so in the end i figured that making it have noFill and increasing the strokeWeight still creates the effect I wanted:

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When it came to the lips in my portrait I tried to make a realistic lip shape by overlapping the ellipses and triangles to create the shape I wanted. It was particularly hard as i had to adjust the points specifically so that it created the shape i wanted:

//lips
push();
noStroke();
fill(255, 105, 120);
ellipse(195, 250, 15, 8);
ellipse(205, 250, 15, 8);
triangle(218, 255, 211, 247, 200, 252);
triangle(190, 253, 193, 245.5, 181, 254);
ellipse(200, 255, 16, 10);
triangle(190, 248, 195, 259, 181, 254);
triangle(210, 250, 205, 259, 219, 255);
pop();

Reflection and ideas for future work or improvements:

My sketch had basic shapes so I was limited to specific shapes, I could have attempted to make complex shapes from the sketch. But at the same time there were alot of things I could have done in a much simpler way, like when it came to placing and rotating the bangs, i had to play around with the numbers to get it to where i wanted it to be, so i think finding an easier way to do that would benefit me in the future for my other assignments.