Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The subject of the piece was of a personal handbag of mine, one of which was extremely special to me.
The original, for comparison:
Admittedly, there’s a lot I could have done with this one. I recall wanting to focus on the bag patterns, but felt like the shape of the bag itself was interesting to portray.
I decided to make a vector image based on this picture of my brother with a hat on.
Vector:
Original:
I decided to do a vector tracing of my favorite dessert to have while in Singapore.
I chose to use an image of my favorite basketball player, Michael Jordan, dunking a basketball at a park in Chicago. I thought that creating a vector image of this photograph would be interesting because a silhouette of him from this image eventually became the Jordan brand logo for his company.
Original:
Vector:
Eventual Jordan Brand Logo:
I chose to do a vector tracing portrait of my girlfriend Taylor. I tried to emphasize the tones of our skin and create contract throughout the piece.
This is the original photograph.
Vector Art: (585 Shapes)
Original Photo:
I chose to vector trace this bear, because it’s a cool bear and it’s very angry
Fur is probably more problematic than skin, but I had more fun tracing this amazing beast.
For my image, I decided to do a vector graphic of the voice actor, Mike Pollock. I chose to do him because of the impression he has left on me due to his voice acting work.
Edited
Original
This is my lovely cat Whiskers – I was very inspired by the WPAP Portrait examples given, and tried to recreate some of the effects with a non-human subject. This is the result:
The most difficult part for me (by far) was getting the blocks of colors to look nice and compliment each other. I know absolutely nothing of color theory so I ended up sampling a bunch of colors from a couple WPAP portraits I liked and using those in my own work of art.
This is the source photo. I know her claws are extended, but she is actually attempting to grab my sister’s hand (she is the one taking the photo for me) in order to coerce additional petting. Her right eye is cloudy because she is blind in that eye.