Illustrator Portrait – Progress Report #2

This is my second progress report! I am happy to say I have smoothed out the sections and I’m proud of how it looks. The main difficulty in progressing from the last point to this one was definitely having to add and delete anchor points to curve the lines. It was a painful process as while I was roughly sectioning of the parts I may have put one or twenty too many anchor points and in some sections barely any in other sections. Something I dislike about my artwork is how plain it looks. The colours are solid and uninteresting. However, I do admire the simplicity. This makes the lips and the white highlights glow. What I have to do next is pick a background. I have a few ideas. I could do a mirror effect and replicate the artwork and lower the opacity so it looks like she is fading out of the picture. Or I could find one of her albums and use the cover’s background. I will update my decision in the next progress report.

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