Original Photograph
Model - Lindsay Wilson
My Trace of Lindsay
To create this trace I placed a couple of layers on top of the photograph. One I used to draw the hair and the other I used to draw Lindsay’s face and shoulders. I used a graphics tablet to do the actual drawing as it’s just like using a pencil which is much easier than drawing with a mouse. I set the brush tool to 1 pixel and gave it and opacity of 20%. I began by drawing the outline on the first layer, next the facial features. On the second layer I began to fill in Lindsay’s hair and this is where I ran into a bit of trouble, I couldn’t see where the waves of Lindsay’s hair were going and so made a copy of the original photograph on another layer and boosted it’s contrast. I have also placed canvas coloured layer under my trace and applied a textured filter to it to give the appearance that it is a real drawing.
My Trace merged with the photograph. Photograph at 50% opacity.
High Contrast Lindsay
With the contrast boosted was able to more easily see the different directions in which Lindsay’s hair was flowing. It also helped me to see which bits I need to shade darker than others.
High Contrast merged with my trace
Having looked back at the course material I can see that I didn’t need to work my trace so elaborately, however I have still successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of tracing.
The second part of this project is to experiment with gradients. Below is another version of my trace, this time with a graduated background.
Graduated Background
To create this background I placed a new layer between the canvas layer and the trace layers. I then selected the gradient tool and changed the foreground colour to orange to make it stand out. I then clicked in the top left corner of the image and dragged my curser to the bottom right hand corner then let go of the mouse button. This created a gradient of orange to white. Finally I changed it’s opacity to 50% so that the canvas texture is still visible through the gradient.
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