Digital self Portrait

Ariel Russell Digital Self Portrait Reflection

The title of this assignment was called Digital Self Portrait. Using Illustrator we had to cut out our silhouette using a pen tool. The first step was to take a picture that shows your silhouette perfectly. Then cut it out using illustrator. We were required to include a background and a sentence of anything from a lyric or a quote.

I cropped my picture by just including my head. For the first image I chose Live Laugh Love as my text and the second picture I used Keep Looking Forward as my text. The background on the first silhouette I drew grass and a sun. I also made flowers. The background on the second silhouette I used different shades of gray and black and stars placed in different areas.

I believe the way I cropped my image does create and interesting composition. On both pictures the background works well with the text I chose. The backgrounds enhances the texts because its interesting and catches your eyes. Also it shows the skills I learned in illustrator.

I don’t think I did this assignment very well because illustrator was new to me and I didn’t understand it very well. I like the backgrounds best on my self-portraits. I learned how to use the pen tool better as well as create shapes and different backgrounds. I learned a lot about design/composition.