Concepts:
For this assignment, my concept was a self portrait of me, wearing a NYU shirt, and a sunny and sandy background. I utilized basic shapes to construct the portrait, with the concept being me in NYUAD right now. I aimed to recreate my hairstyle as much as I could on a 2D space. Apart from the portrait of myself, I also drew the sun in the background, which I believe is an important feature of Abu Dhabi.
Portrait
Highlight
I implemented a feature where the nightsky, moon, and stars would show when you click down on the canvas. I used an if statement to detect whether a mouse button was being held down, which is detected with the function ‘mouseIsPressed’.
if (mouseIsPressed){
//nightsky
fill(40)
rect(0,0,400,250)
fill(190)
//moon
circle(0,0,250)
fill(240)
circle(30,24,30)
fill(230)
circle(16,81,15)
fill(215)
circle(48,83,20)
fill(242)
circle(87,19,15)
fill(250)
circle(70,50,30)
//stars
fill(255)
circle(294,25,2)
circle(187,42,2)
circle(361,52,2)
circle(218,9,2)
circle(276,115,2)
circle(279,70,2)
circle(355,85,2)
circle(133,91,2)
circle(215,85,2)
}
Improvements
For the drawing of the rays of the sun, I tediously drew the triangles one by one to achieve the way I wanted it to look. This was quite time consuming and wasn’t very efficient. In the future, I could utilize a loop to speed up this process.