week 7 Illustration based on a Photograph

 

Illustration based on a Photograph

 

 

This week's assignment was to trace an photograph based on our topic. My topic is Halloween.  The image I traced in Illustrator is a photograph of my own work which you can see below the original copy of the photo and the illustrated copy.

 

 

This photograph was taken to resemble evil fairytales/Halloween.  I took this photograph with triangle lighting.  You can tell because their is a triangle shadow right by her nose.  I also edited the photo in Photoshop giving her red eyes and fangs to give the halloween/evil vibe to the photograph.

 

 

I trace this Illustration based on the photograph above. I used the shape and pen tool to trace this picture.  I made shapes with pen tool by starting with eyes then mouth the nose and so on to create the face.  I used color by using the eyedropper to match the different tones.  When I made the shapes to develop her face I focused on the shadows and tone them a darker color, I then added outline details, like the shape of her face. I  began drawing different shapes based on her clothing and cape to bring the character to life.  Then I drew shapes based on her arms and hands, I toned them based on shadows as well.  I outlined the tree and added different shapes inside the branches to give a real texture look to it.  The background is a black square shape that I created with the shape tool.