Concept:
For the very first assignment in Intro to Interactive media, I was able to make a 2D portrait of my own face which also included parts of my identity such as lifted eyebrows, bigger eyes and writing some parts about my identity such as being a polyglot from Thailand for the very first time using coding as I previously don’t have any previous experience in coding.
Below is my finished portrait:
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How it’s made:
This portrait was made using p5.js functions using 2D shapes and different functions such as Fill, Elipse, Stroke, Strokeweight, noStroke, Circle, Arc and line, these basic functions help me have a good foundation of what I need to make a realistic face and to explore and add different more specific features such as eyebrows etc.
When I started it was pretty difficult as it took me quite a while to watch the 3 videos available on YouTube and the link provided to get a good basic grasp of the functions of this platform because I haven’t coded much before and which code I need to do to make the shape of each facial features compatible with the body.
I designed my face to be more of starting with face frame using fill and elipse with no stroke, then eye using ellipse, and the eyehole using fill and circle, then eyebrow using arc, and nose lines and more specifically far apart because my nose is more big, lip, hair and ear using arc and neck using lines and shirt using text and stroke.
Later on adjusting more specific details such as arc of lips and eyebrows to make it fit well with how I look and my body proportions or look like me was also another hard step.
As highlighted code I’m proud of:
The part I am proud of is I was trying to add different parts of my identity to my shirt such as giving purple theme and writing some things that really resonate with me and are part of my identity on the shirt and to be able to write design of NYU shirt on the portrait.
Reflection:
I enjoyed creating my self portrait, alsthought hroguhout the journey I had some difficulties especially at positioning the shapes and getting used to how the gird works, I was able to get through and I think the main thing I struggled was when to apply the noStroke function and finding the right strokeWeight for specific places such as lips etc.
I think in the future what could have been better is after I get better and more used to program I can add some side effects such as animations, and different gimics into the portrait. But overall, I think as the first work it was already pretty fun and I feel proud to create my first very own portrait.