Illustrator Avatar

Recently we have worked hard on creating an avatar of ourselves in Illustrator. We started off with a photo of ourselves and then used whatever of the three technics Mr.Cole gave us to choose from and created an avatar! It was very difficult to find out which technic I could do well. I started off with a geometric avatar tutorial but it didn't work well with my photo. This ended up resulting in a comic book type of technic that I used to create the final product! I love the end result.

This is the beginning photo...

This is the end result...

Photoshop Retouch

This past couple weeks we have been working on retouching a professional photo of ourselves in Photoshop. This is the original picture...

Now here is the retouched photo that will be used for the Academy Banquet slide show!

We enhanced our natural features and natural shadows with dodge and burn tool. We also used the clone stamp tool to get rid of fly-away hairs. To remove blemishes we used the spot healing tool and made sure our skin was extremely clean so that it was easy to smooth out. Final touches were brightening the eyes and whitening our teeth! I really enjoyed learning how to do this type of Photoshop work. It was hard to make the photo still look natural and not crazy edited.