Vector Portrait

Pre-Production

When deciding on the photo of myself to use, I didn't have many to choose from. I ended up reusing the same photo I took for the pop art project. I airdropped it to my computer, put it in photoshop, cropped it to 8 inches by 10 inches, exported it, then put it in adobe illustrator. I had two artboards in illustrator, one for the original image, and one for the vector portrait.

Production

This project taught me how to customize my grid so I could create poly vector portraits. What I did was create a bunch of random triangles, and I tried to put bigger triangles in less detailed areas and more smaller triangles in detailed areas, such as ears, eyes, mouth, etc. Then I colored it in using the eye dropper tool, so the colors would be very close to the original image.

Post-Production

I am pleased with the final poly vector portrait. The portrait resembles me quite well. Without looking at the original image, I'm sure most people that know me could guess that it's me. Also, the colors look nice together. The only thing I wish looked better are the eyes. It's very hard making good eyes out of triangles.