Concept
After getting introduced to p5.js I was excited to dive more into this program and try out new things. I decided to come up with a self-portrait that also depicts an important hobby in my life. I like playing football. It is a sport that relieves my stress and makes me excited. Therefore, I felt the need to include a soccer ball in my self-portrait which you can see below.
When I first started with the drawing I was so confused about how am I going to draw the main features of the face. I do not have a background in art and art was never a passion for me. However, I found this task an opportunity to explore art even more and find out how can I represent complicated things using simple objects. Therefore, I started playing with the different shapes in p5.js and was able to combine them in a way to create a face and an upper body. I had to explore new features in the reference page like the quad function to be able to draw my hair, eyes, and arms.
I liked how the eyes of my portrait look. I could have done the eyes in a much simpler way by creating an ellipse. However,I decided to try out new shapes and see what I could get. Therefore, as seen in this code above I used two triangles and a quad to represent each eye. Furthermore, I only added a black stroke to the upper half of the eyes to represent the eyelid. To create the Iris for each eye, I used the ellipse feature with 3 parameters and this way I was able to create circles.
Ideas for Improvements
After completing my self-portrait, I was so happy with how it looked but I still that it needs some improvement to look better. I believe that I could have done the ball to look more realistic. This would be by creating more pentagons inside the ball and connecting them in a better way. Furthermore, in the future, I would like to make my full body portrait and show all my body features. In addition to this, I would like to make the drawing dynamic and make it move by putting the ball on portrait’s foot and start juggling with the ball.