Type 2 by Rafid Khan

Portrait in type by Rafid Khan              So for my portrait in type assignment, I chose Pop Smoke. As you can see, it's very incomplete assignment as I'm unable to have time to finish it as the picture contain many details on Pop Smoke. However, the things I've put on my Pop Smoke with typography looks somewhat decent as I've completed most of his face. So let me tell you the process that I've went through in order to make this so called incomplete Pop Smoke type art. One of the biggest challenges I've faced while making this type art is that I couldn't determine what letters could fit on the features/areas of Pop Smoke. Since I have lack of knowledge to put variety of letters in the art, I mostly used the letter I to outline the picture of Pop Smoke. For the eye pupil, I used the letter O, I was intending on using the letter O twice but I realize that it won't really work out well. I got some advice and thought of using the letter C which perfectly...

Self-Portrait by Rafid Khan As you can see, this is my gray-scale portrait-to-color portrait. Let me tell you the process that I went through while making these portraits in Adobe Illustrator. First of all, the biggest I faced while starting this assignment is trying to find a good picture of myself. Normally I don't really take pictures or selfies and when I do it's not really a good one. After so many attempts of trying to take a good picture of myself, I was like "forget it". So on my last selfies, I decided to use them in my assignment. So I cropped my picture so that it somewhat shows mostly my face and neck. I then opened my selfie to Adobe Photoshop and add the grayscale in my selfies by 8 levels. I then saved my selfie as grayscale and then opened it up on Adobe Illustrator. When I got into Adobe Illustrator, I locked up the original photo. The first thing I started drawing with a pen tool and curve tool is the black shades. My intention was to draw from darke...