For my Illustrator Portrait, I chose to do Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan). Illustrator is an Adobe application that allows you to create vector art. I chose Billie Holiday because of her incredible influence over jazz and blues music.

My progress is going good so far. I have had two hours to work on this project and I’ve successfully roughly sectioned off my tones. The difficult component in creating the artwork is definitely the fact that I am not completely familiar with the Illustrator program yet. Lucky for me, I have my Digital art teacher and the world wide web to help me. Some difficulties I faced when not knowing how to operate the program entirely was making my edges soft. As you can see I’ve ‘roughly’ sectioned the tones off when in actual reality, that’s the smoothest I could get it. Hopefully, by my next progress report, I have been able to fix that problem.

Aspects of my artwork that I like include the mouth region, for some reason, I admire how the teeth turned out. I also like how I have done the highlights around the eyes to accentuate them. Something I dislike about the artwork is the ear. I haven’t been able to successfully section the tones in that area, it’s still a working progress. My vision is to see the sections smoother and in colour, (using a natural skin tone palette). I also want the lips to stand out, so I plan on making them an alternative colour to complement the browns, I’m thinking rose-red.