The first idea for this project that came to mind is to arrange pictures of orange slices to form either a sun or a flower (similar to Adam Hillman’s strawberry piece). All of the orange slices are the same half circle shape, but I will change the position the slices are laid in to give it more dimension (seen in my sketch). I’m not sure how I’ll create contrast in it though. I could add some shadows to it in a photo editing app/software. Or I was thinking I could add grapefruits to the collage as well to have some switch up in color but still have it in the same color family. (Photo for idea below including sketch.)

Over the break I haven’t been up to much, but I have done some digital art (which was a part of my summer job) and made some sketches that I have yet to turn into finished pieces. But for the most part there has been nothing up with me.

My hopes for this school year is to become more skilled with the Adobe softwares. I want to make more pieces that are portfolio worthy. Also, I would say I’m comfortable with Illustrator and Photoshop, but I feel like there still a lot to learn and practice with. But I’d like to do more with Photoshop.

I haven’t had any issues with remote learning aside from procrastinating, but I have all the resources I need and there hasn’t been any big obstacles like that.

My self portrait project was an overall long and hard experience. When starting the project I had a few concerns, but became somewhat confident. Laying down the circles onto my picture in Illustrator seemed pretty easy, but as I got farther into the project I noticed some flaws and came across some difficulties. As I started filling in the circles with color, I saw that it looked flat and awkward and I had to make adjustments. I think I kind of knew where to lay the circles, but since I wanted less of them I made circles too big and didn’t show the values well. This project was the hardest for me mainly since I needed to constantly fix flaws, which slowed down the already long and repetitive process. But, towards the end I gained a better understanding and it actually started to turn out well (at least in the face). The face holds the most detail but I didn’t bother so much with the hair and shirt since I was short on time. I think if I did this over again with what I now know I would be able to pace myself better and get a better outcome in a shorter amount of time.

I’m finished with the upper part of my portrait and all I’m left with is filling in the shirt. It shouldn’t take too long. There will be less detail in the shirt (and the hair) compared to the face.

I’m almost done with my portrait. I hoped to finish it today, which was a stretch. But I should be able to complete it tomorrow. The main part left is just my shirt. I won’t be able to get as much detail as I did on my face since that took so much time alone. It may look awkward in some places, but I just want to finish it and make it somewhat decent.

Today I just made some more adjustments, started filling in the neck. I feel like the the more I do the more flaws I notice that I have to fix and it’s slowing me down. I know what I have to do now but it’s taking long to finish.

Last class when I went to save my progress and upload it to drive, I noticed that the progress I made didn’t save and show up. I was sure that I saved it as an Illustrator file, but I guess not so I lost a class worth of work. Today I had to go back and get as much done as I could. I managed to do most of the face by redoing the lips, nose, an eye etc. I’m getting worried that I won’t finish it in time but I’ll just need to hurry and use extra time.

Today I continued filling in some circles on my face. I also had to re-size a lot of them to show more value and lighting. It look a while to do but I think as I re-sized them and filled it in it started to look better. I will most likely need extra time to do this and make it look how I want it to.

As I continued filling in some circles today I noticed some things. Mainly around the eye area, I have to make some adjustments because the colors look too flat and some of the circles are too big. It may just be me, but as I filled it in more and more it started to look a bit awkward so I redid some circles.

Today I started filling in some circles with color. I still have to finish adding circles on my shirt but I got kind of bored of it so I started to fill them in. Doing the actual circles took longer than filling them in for me since I have to place/size the circles well and fill in gaps. Making the circles is still overall easy but very repetitive which can make it feel a boring at times.