Portrait in type


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 worked out well. Next I used the letter I on the eyeliner, it was a bit challenging as so much I's were packed. Surprisingly, it managed to work out well I guess. For the glasses, I also used the letter I to outline as I'm unable to find any letter that fit with it. However, for the glasses holder part, I used the letter L twice, with one of the letter L, I just rotate it horizontally. There's also another glasses part and I used the letter U. I then went to outline the nose, for the nose, I used parenthesis and of course the letter I. Afterwards, I outline the mustache, the mustache part was really easy to do as I easily outlined with W. The lip was easy as well as I only had to use the dash to outline it. I then moved to the eyebrow part and basically used W and V which ended up being easy as well. The next hardest part I've faced while making Pop Smoke is the "Faith" tattoo. It a couple of attempts to make the tattoo look accurate by the using somewhat of variety of letter.  I was unable to outline the entire face as I got really busy with other stuff. But overall, I must say that the type art of Pop Smoke is like a 6/10 despite being incomplete.

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