Cartoon Project

Artist Reflection 

I feel that the strongest part about my final cartoon project was the colors that I used because it made the image seem more realistic, especially because the skin and hair color is actually realistic. I think that the face of the cartoon could be improved because it doesn't resemble my facial features and just looks like a random cartoon character. I could improve it by spending more time on the facial features when I drew it before scanning in. For this project I used the polygon lasso tool, the paint brush, and dodge and burn. I used the polygon lasso tool to section out each part of the cartoon before coloring it, I used the paint brush to color each part of the cartoon the right color, I used the dodge tool to darken parts of the cartoon and the burn tool to lighten others. For this project it was easy to choose which colors looked good for each section because I was able to test some colors out and layer darker and lighter colors to make the cartoon more realistic. During the project it was difficult to get the cartoon to even remotely resemble me and it was also difficult to outline the image after scanning because some parts were curved and some parts needed more attention to detail then others. I was able to demonstrate each aspect of the project because I hand drew a cartoon inspired image of myself, then used both Illustrater to create a pen tool image and Photoshop to apply color and detail. If I could do the assignment again I would pay more attention and detail to the original drawing of myself and try to get it to resemble myself a lot more. On a scale of 1-10 I would say my effort was a 9 because although it didn't come out as good as I hoped, I tried my best to achieve all the goals of the project.