You’ll make a low poly portrait in Illustrator. This is done by drawing little triangles with the Pen Tool in Illustrator. Here you see some examples of low poly portraits.
This 9 minute video explains how it’s done.
TIPS
- Use a photograph with a high light-dark contrast, this will give the best result.
- To quickly line up with other object, use View > Smart Guides (cmd+U)
- First draw the triangles without a fill (just a line color). Afterwards you fill them and lastly you turn off the lines.
- Make sure all shapes are closed.
- Make swatches to quickly fill shapes with colors.
- Use smaller triangles in detailed areas, such as the eyes, nose and mouth.
Materials
- None
Hand in
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