Category: Week 1 – Drawing

Drawing the portrait was overall easy to do, and I tried to incorporate shapes in the portrait that would be easier to translate into Processing. Constructing the self-portrait in Processing was more difficult and also a long a process; I especially struggled with manipulating arcs. A lot of the process was also spent punching in numbers, checking to see the output, and adjusting accordingly. I probably should have planned or calculated my measurements from the start instead of guessing-and-checking, and so the measurements may be off/asymmetrical. While it was easy to draw in shapes and color them in on the paper, it was harder to fill in shapes in Processing, especially ones that were comprised of arcs.

Link to sketch: https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/503597

Drawing a self-portrait out on paper wasn’t too difficult – it didn’t take me too long to sketch out a picture of myself with pencil and paper. But creating a sketch of myself with processing was a long process. The task easily took me at least a couple of hours, as I tried to fine tune all of the features of my face and made sure the color and stroke width were right. On paper, I could visualize in my mind the picture I wanted, and it was easy to transfer that vision from my mind to my sketchbook. On the computer, it was definitely harder, as I couldn’t control exactly where I wanted the lines and features to go. I think both mediums were the same in terms of visualizing the final product, but as for actually creating it, it was much more difficult coding it in processing.

Link to sketch: https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/501626