The student took a self-portrait photo and edited it in Photoshop for an Opie task to create a cartoon drawing of themselves. They first experimented with changing their hair color but reverted to their natural color. Next, they added details to their hair, eyes using bevel and emboss, nose, and mouth. Finally, they added clothing including replicating the Adidas logo, and chose a background color to complete the cartoon drawing of themselves.

1. The brief
In my Opie task I had to create a cartoon drawing of
myself using the photo editing software “Photoshop”.
I first took a self-portrait photo of myself using photo
booth and then started to edit the photo. First of all I
created a new layer and started on the hair, originally
I had my hair blue, but I then resorted to my natural
hair colour because I thought it looked to un-natural. I
then added streaks to the hair colour; I chose a
slightly lighter shade and did the parting of my hair.
Next I used the pencil tool to create the eyes, instead
of adding a white dot to the corner of the eye I bevel
and embossed it to have a white glint in the eye, I did
this too set mine apart from everyone else’s. Then I
gradually added a nose and mouth and added a black
line around my face to make it seem bolder.
And finally I did my clothes, it wasn’t hard to do it but
it did take a while to do all of my adidas logo. I then
added a background colour and my Opie task was
finished.