// Assignment 8 // Pop Art #1 // Graphic Design

          

          My strongest technical aspect of this work was how I kept with the natural lines of the actual photo. I did that because not all of the natural end lines of the photo appeared in the edited version but I still wanted the colors to end where they actually would have on the actual photo. I did that by closing two of the layers over the background layer and making the paint tool very small so I could outline where each color would have naturally ended on that original photo. I don't really think I could have improved on anything, I think it turned out looking really nice. I think taking the extra time to really find the natural endings of each piece of the picture and I think that adds to the entire

photo.

          The easiest thing for me was deciding a color scheme for the photo. I wanted to stick with pastels because I thought it would all look as if it went best together. I made the lips a couple shades darker than how the shade I used for the skin. I then decided to leave both the eyes and the teeth white because I thought it would add to the look of the piece as a whole. For me the hardest part of this was using a picture that worked because the first photo I tried was to much of a profile view and the shirt the girl was wearing was a major contrast from the face and I either had the face fully disappear or the clothes would fully disappear. 

          I demonstrated the objective of this project by making separate copies of the original image and then deleting the background to one of those copies using the pen tool. Then I used solid fill layers on top of a white version of the original image and drew in where I wanted all of the colors to go. If I was to do this project again I would leave all of the colors the way they are because I think it goes well together. I would most likely add a darker shade of blue to the slight gaps within the black side of her hair.