Self-Portrait in Gray by Juan Diaz Ibarra
Self-Portrait in Gray by Juan Diaz Ibarra To create the self portrait of myself was a challenging process to do. The process of making this was to first make the picture grayscale and also posturized. This would limited the number of colors in the picture. After this I would have to separate each different color in its own section or layer to make it easier to organize and find. While recreating the face there was a few challenges. One of those challenges was make the layers not have any small or big white space in between the layers and within the design. To try to overcome this challenge I used more points from the pen tool to make the path as straight as possible. Another challenge I had was creating the glasses for my face in the design. To create the glasses I had to create 2 separate layers. One layer for the frames of the glasses and another layer for both lens of the glasses. I then had to use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+8 to create a Compound path...