Guess who project

The guess who projects brief is to create are own  guess who character to develop and remember out illustrator skills. Firstly we had to find a photo displaying face in portrait her is the photo I have chosen :

Although this photo is black and white because I am using as a template to draw the character over it does not matter as I can use other references. Once I had selected this photo I needed to open it within Illistrater to get started. Once I have done this I need to start tracing the main features of the face starting with the eyes.

To create the pupils of my eyes I have used the ellipse tool creating the pupil and the light spot of the pupils of my eyes. To create the whites and eyelid as you can see above I have used the pen tool drawing the curved lines in and filling them with the correct colours to my skin tone. Next I will  focus on further details such as eyelashes and eyeliner. 

From this I needed to add other basic features to the face using higlighted lines such as the lips and face shape and even a large section of the fridge which makes up the face. This will also now stand alone without the photo : 

Once I had all the features i created my face and hair and included the correct colouration here is what i finally created :

 To make this more advanced I will add the shading of my hair giving the impression of the texture of the hair.  This involved me using the pen toll procisely to define the curls. 

To add the final touches i added the background, colour and name this is my finished card : 

To improve this even further I added the correct font of guess who ( copper black ) and changed the box so it fitted a little bit better.