Cartoon

The strongest part of my piece is my body because I feel as if it looks the most accurate. The shapes are on point and so is the color shading. I believe my head and hair could definitely be improved on. I think next time if I traced the picture rather than free hand draw it, it would look a lot more accurate. Tools that I used to create my masterpiece were the quick selection tool, the brush tool, the pen tool, the dodge tool, and the burn tool. I used the pen tool to create the outline of the character by connecting each anchor point together. After the outline was created, I used the quick selection tool to select the area I wanted to color, where I then used the brush tool to color in the selected area. After the entire cartoon was colored in, I used the dodge and burn tool to add shadows and highlights.
The coloring part of this activity was the easiest because I struggled the least. I could refer back to the original picture to get an idea of what I should color the cartoon. Creating the outline of the cartoon was the most difficult because I kept messing up the anchor points and had trouble making them curved lines. I reached my goals by making the cartoon look somewhat similar to the picture, by all of the colors being accurate. I free hand drew the picture, with still making it look accurate.
If I could do this assignment again, I would trace it instead if freehand drawing it. On a scale of 1-10, I would rate my effort a 9 on this project because I tried really hard but I struggled a little bit.