Practicing Portraiture Using Illustrator

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These are images created using my own photos for reference and aimed at familiarizing myself with using the pen tool to create line-art portraits. At first I had a lot of difficulty using the pen tool which is why I chose to practice it!

I was planning to use this line art for the mesh tool assignment but unfortunately the way I built the layers of the image and locked them together makes this impossible. Still, creating this image was good practice for the mesh tool assignment and I'm excited to create a portrait of myself using this technique.




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