Silhouette Self Portrait Reflection

The project was to create a silhouette based on a self-portrait we took prior starting the project. Before we started the project we had to take a self-portrait with the options of including your whole body, or half of body. We were also introduce to a new kind of adobe software; Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator is very different to Photoshop, because in illustrator it’s more in using a freestyle kind of thing rather than being limited to a picture size. After we took the picture we had to transfer it to illustrator and start tracing it with the pen tool. The silhouette also had to include some kind of text and represent who you are. After we traced ourselves out, we started thinking on a way to represent ourselves in the silhouette, I decided to include music, and a quote “music is the inspiration”.

 

When I cropped my image I cropped half the body, from waist up. I decided to included text on top of the silhouette, a type of heading, and I also included the quote above “music is the inspiration”. The backgrounds are both white, because since I included headphones, music notes, and a flayer on the middle of the background, I didn’t want to make it seem that there was more than what I looked.

I think the way I cropped my piece makes an interesting composition because I look like I’m looking at the flayer I included in the background, making it seem like I’m looking into something deeper than its shown. For the text I used cursive writing to give the piece some style, and put the quote like I said on the heading. My background enhances my piece well because its white and it makes everything pop out.

Looking at the rubric I think I did good on the engagement, I was always focused on the project and used the new tools efficiently. The thing I like most about my silhouette is how my outline actually came out it came out smooth. The pen tool is really cool, its like drawing on a computer without having actual artistic skills. Overall I learned plenty of new things using Adobe Illustrator.