Silhouette

Besides watching a Star Wars marathon and listening to some music, I decided to play around a bit more with Photoshop/Illustrator. I don't know how I came to the decision that I'll try to make a silhouette of my headshot, but I decided that I'll try to make a silhouette of my headshot.



You've seen this picture before, it's over there ---> to the right. It's the headshot I sent in to the job that required me to be clean shaven everyday. I like this picture, because my beard looks good and my hair flows perfectly. This picture would make a simple silhouette because of the amount of contrast it already presents.

I searched for a tutorial of how to do silhouettes, and then followed some steps that got me to just the black and white image. It essentially what I was aiming for.



We get that, just the black on white. It required some touching up of the hair, and if I spent some more time on it, I could get a better representation of how wavy and flow-y my hair can get. But I really wasn't aiming for that. And I don't really have a mouse/setup that could help my precision in that matter.

My next idea was to personalize it a little more, and add some glasses. That led me back into Illustrator where I can easily work with the all-mighty pen tool. The background was the last touch, and I went with some gray of sorts. It's gray. I like gray.



And that is what I ended up with. The glasses look a little too sharp, I think. But if you were to just look at that silhouette without previously seeing the original or knowing who it was, could you guess it was me?