Type 2 by Juan Diaz

Portrait in Type By Juan Diaz       For the Portrait in Type design I decide to make the type portrait out of Chris Hemsworth. To complete this assignment I had to get a portrait of a human face and use it as a model. I then had to recreate it with the use of letters and type. I also had to use only one font. That font being Source Sans Variable font created by Paul D. Hunt. As for the design specifically the creation of the suit I used the letter V.I then add another V and reflected the V vertically and combine them together to create a rhombus shape design. Then I used the the rhombus design to create the outline of the suit. I could have added more design to the suit to not make look basic or simple but I decide to stick with the original photograph when make the letter type design. As for the face which includes the ears, eyes, eyebrows, mouth and the nose I mostly used parenthesis for the outline of the face but also used lowercase L, J and C for the Face. C was...

Self-Portrait in Color and Gray by Juan Diaz           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 Co...