Cartoon Project

The strongest area of my work would be the 3D effect that the cartoon gives off, i believe it really makes the cartoon stand out. I have two pictures which is a before and after, i think that changing the color of the shirt from red to gray was a good choice because it allowed the dodge and burn tools full effect to be used. The drawing could definitely use more improvement, the shoes are deformed and so is the head, also the face is lacking in detail. The easiest part of this activity was tracing the drawing using the pen tool and smoothing it over to make the lines into natural curves. The hardest part was drawing the actual cartoon as i am no artist. I utilized the pen tool to trace the cartoon, the paint bucket was used for all the coloring of the drawing, also the smooth tool for the curving of lines and cleaning up any mistakes, and i used the dodge and burn tools to make my cartoon have a 3D look and also to give it some shadowing. The goal was to make a cartoon character of yourself, i believe that i reached this goal as the clothes i used matched my own and the expression is one i commonly wear. If we do this again i will definitely be more careful when drawing and add more details to the body, also i may add a background and some props if it works out.