Project Details:

Timeline: February 2024

Medium: Illustrator

This was a difficult project, as the challenge was to create an eye-catching self portrait using only organic shapes in Adobe Illustrator. I had a lot of fun creating the layers upon layers of shapes to form my own face. The color palette and my facial expression feels very reminiscent of a Disney villian like Jafar or Hades! 

I would love to go back and try a second rendition of this challenge! Using Illustrator was satisfying and the end result looks very clean and smooth. 

My initial digital sketch is below. You can see how the design originally looked a lot more fluid and aquatic. I’m happy that I strayed away from that because I think the fiery/oil spill shapes are a lot more intriguing!