Bollywood Vector Art

I'm really glad that I chose Vector Art as my last Photoshop project, partly because it was really fun and challenging, but also because it took a lot of time and I got to spend more time in Digital Graphics class :]. I chose this project because it seemed really interesting, and vector art is a very good skill to know for a digital artist, which is definitely a career (or at least a hobby) that interests me. One thing I discovered during this project was the Free form Pen tool, which I found helpful for creating shapes quickly; however it was more of hindrance when I needed to change the shapes, because the anchor points it created moved the outline inversely, so I could never get quite the right shape. Another tool I used quite often, besides the pen tool, was the gradient tool. It was fun to play around with merging different layers and changing the transparencies to make the shapes look closer to the original picture, and I think I was successful! The part that was most challenging for me was the hair, because it has so many different tones and shapes in it, and the roots are darker and the ends lighter than most of the hair. It was difficult to make it look like one cohesive part of her body. I'm not sure if I'm completely satisfied with the end product of the hair, but I'm pretty sure it's the best that I could have made it. I'm really proud of how the head turned out, especially the eyes and the earring. I think that those turned out really well, I captured the different colors in the eyes perfectly, if I may say so m'self! And the earrings look very realistic, and really pretty. I'm very proud of this project, it's definitely the most pride I've felt for a Photoshop project out of all of them!