Guess Who

The Guess Who task was the very first assignment we got given at the start of Graphics Year 2, the assignment was to create a replica person from the board game Guess Who, transferring an image of ourselves into cartoon. This task allowed us to get to know tools in Adobe Photoshop more and get practice for future assignments. Below is how I done this...

The first step was to pick an image of ourselves that was clear and would be easy to recognize the features on our face, as we had to create the image into animation we wanted it to be clear to make it look realistic. After choosing the photo we wanted to use we had to put this into Adobe Photoshop, firstly I had to lock the layer so that no changes would be made to this and we could work on the second blank layer that I created afterward. 

Now I could begin recognizing the facial features and using pen tool I began outlining the 'white' of my eye to create this shape into a animated shape,. I continued to do this with my features such as my, eyelashes and eyebrow etc. To create my pupil I used the shape tool to get a more defined round shape. I then added in color as I went along so I could distinct what shape was what and belonged where. After doing my eye area I went used hide tool to temporarily get rid of those features so it was easier for me to carry on with everything else. I continued to do my lips and face shape using the same method with the pen tool. To create my nose, I first used the shape tool to create the two hole as my nostrils then used the paintbrush tool to get small lines that would be the shading and outline of my nose area - to get the perfect colors, I used the eyedropper tool and kept the color it picked up or slightly changed it to make it look better in the cartoon. Below is a screen grab of all these steps put together:

As I wanted my cartoon to look as realistic I decided to add some shading on the cheeks, this made the image have a bit more depth and not look so flat. To add the shading I used the paintbrush tool and changed what brush it was to a lighter and more flared at tip - this made it so what I painted wasn't so heavy. To get the right color I once again used the eyedropper tool and picked the dark shading on my face from the real image. Below is this step:

The next thing to was to add my hair into the picture. Although the real image I had blonde hair, I changed it in the cartoon to brown as this is my current hair color! I used the same method as I did to get the eye shapes and eye brows etc, outlining the hair with the pen tool then filling it in with appropriate color, I also added in the darker layers of my hair so that it looked a bit more realistic:

I then grouped all the layers together, so that they could move all as one and i could easily move them around the page and into the center. I then added the background using the shape tool and drawing around the rectangle then filling it with the gradient of blue to white to blue below is this step:

My final Guess Who cartoon looks like this!: