Today’s Daily Create is a cool one from Darren Kuropatwa who I had the pleasure of meeting for the first time at this year’s Educon. The assignment was to take a photo of yourself and trace over it to create a line drawing of your face. Since I don’t have a lightbox I went the iPad route. I’ve never used many of the drawing programs I have on my iPad and I had the fun idea of thinking I could also generate a video of the drawing by using the Brushes app which records all your brush strokes. Unfortunately the video it created has the background image flipped sideways for some reason. Regardless it’s still fun to watch the drawing come together so I figured I’d add it here in addition to the final image I uploaded to Flickr.
Looks just like you!
Loved the way you shared your process in the video! It’s so cool to see the original picture followed by the drawing. My daughter tried this recently at my prompting. We used the Doodle Buddy app to import her picture from the camera roll on my iPod then replaced the background with solid white after she was done. Very cool.
I guess since it’s my assignment I better get on it.
[...] I’m using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro but Taptrix Brushes works well too. In fact, sometimes Brushes is better because it records your brush strokes, as you will see from Tim’s excellent face trace. [...]