Pixel Portrait
This piece is titled Digital Avatar. The applications used to create this piece were Photo Booth and Adobe Illustrator (CS2).Photo Booth was used to take a picture of myself to use as reference, and Illustrator was used to create the actual piece. I feel that this piece was important show to the world because I feel as though it best portrays my ability to learn new skills in a short period of time and use these skills effectively to create great art. The only thing I would change about this piece is the use of the burning tool as a shading mechanism, which I feel didn`t positively benefit the piece. I am particularly happy with this piece because of the way it turned out. I exceedingly like the way my avatar portrays me and I feel as though it actually looks like me, which is why I like it so much, because I accomplished the purpose of assignment. Which was to create a digital pixel representation of yourself. The only aspect of this assignment that I found difficult was matching the actual colors of my face to the colors of my pixel portrait. However once I learned a quick way to extract the same colors from my image and put them onto my pixel portrait I found it easy to complete the assignment, which I found very satisfying.
