Rita Ora

Rita Ora

I chose to use this picture of Rita Ora to use as a template for my graphics work. After first drawing round the face features i began to realise that her hair would be difficult to draw round. It took a long time to to this as all the curls had to be shown.

First i drew round the outline of her hair before starting any detail. The hair was the hardest to complete as i had to think about the amount detail it needed in order for it to look good. Although on the original image, the hair looks all one colour but when i used the pen tool, i realised there were many shades of blonde and  i had to choose a shade of blonde that fitted the colour of her skin. To make her curls stand i used the pen tool to pick a lighter shade of blonde and drew round every individual curl and changed to direction so it was not all falling the same way. It took a lot of time to this, however i did it to make her hair look better, stand out and more realistic.

The face features were easier to draw round as not as much detail was needed. The lips were very simple to get right, as not a lot of detail is needed to make the lips look good. Too make them look realistic i drew a line in the middle of her lips in a lighter shade of pink, this made the lips not all on colour and separates the top lop and the lower lip.

The eyebrows was the easiest face feature to draw round as they a just one shape and only need one colour. The pen tool was used again for this to match the graphic eyebrows the same colour as her actual eyebrows.

To get the shape of her nose, i simply drew a few lines and not completely drew round it. This was due to the fact that the nose look ridiculously stupid when i drew the full things, so i drew in simples lines to to get the shape of her nose.

However, the eyes were the most complicated face feature to get right. A number of layers needed to be used and the shape needed to be as close to the shape as her real eye as possible. To get the perfect shape, a tool called...was used and i managed to curve the lines to make it look rounder and curvier.