Development 3: Vector Portraits

As an extension/development of the 'Photoshop Face' task we did with rob in which we had to manipulate and edit a head shot of ourselves taken in the studio using Photoshop I decided to remake the image in Adobe Illustrator making it into a vector. A vector is an image that is created by plotting anchor points across a grid in which you can join up with lines unlike a standard image that is made of coloured pixels, this means that it can be scaled infinitely.

My inspiration to do a vector based portrait came from a graphic design and animation studio based in Huddersfield called 'Pixcill' who I follow on social media, when they first launched their page they did a small introduction to each member of the team but instead of using  photographs they used vector portraits instead. I though this was a really intelligent way of presenting their selves as it not only is visually pleasing but it is a show case for the skills they have and the techniques they can offer you to work in. (http://www.pixcilstudio.com/)

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I started the production of the vector by tracing over the original image using the pen tool then I began to add the detail like the wrinkle lines and the lines around the yes to give it tone and depth. I chose to present four versions of the final outcome as the original image was taken against a green screen I though that it made the image looked stylized towards some of Litchensteins work in the pop art collection. By adjusting the the hue of the image it inverts and changes all the colours creating almost another version of the image.