2017 • ILLUSTRATION
The following collection started because of a class project, but turned into a series I created for my illustration Instagram account for Black History Month, several of which were sold as merchandise to raise money for Black Lives Matter.
For the original assignment, we started with a photo made of only a few shades of gray by posterizing and converting it to grayscale on Photoshop, then traced the shapes with the pen tool on Illustrator. After tracing, the shapes were filled with skin tone shades pulled from our original images with the eyedropper tool. This created a dynamic portrait of the person, because the images have depth and detail through shadows and highlights, but still maintain the posterized effect.