Geometric Portraits

The latest project my G.T. class is working on is Low Poly Portraits . Facial Expressions of emotion are universal, not learned differently in each culture. Several studies have attempted to classify human emotions, and to see how your face can give away your emotional state. People are generally relatively skilled at telling another person's mood, simply by taking a glance at them.

Skeptical both of the original research methods used to prove the "universality" theory, which involved prompting subjects with emotion words and asking them to label expressions with them. A traditional northeast Namibian culture notable for its isolation from almost all Western cultural influence, the tram investigated whether recognition of facial expressions might instead be contextual, and whether subjects' ability to correctly label expressions might hinge entirely on cues from the experimenters.

I created the first project by first taking a symmetrical self portrait and putting it into Photoshop. Then putting a grid on my picture I used a red Line Tool to draw a in the middle of my face and to outline my hair, eyes, mouth, nose, and eyebrows, I then merge all the outlines in one layer and call it "Hair". Then adding large triangles into my hair, eyes, mouth, nose, and eyebrows. Now I'm going to start making bigger triangle on my skin, Then I merge all the outlines into one layer and call it "Outlines". After I finish my outlines on only one half of my skin I use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to outline each of the triangles one by one and hitting, Filter-Blur-Average to blur the triangles out. After I finish blurring every triangle I copy one side of my face and horizontally flip it to make another side of my face. Then I make the red outlines white by changing the color overlay to white.