Silhouette Project

In this project I practiced making an silhouette out of a athletic person in Illustrator. Firstly I had to pick out my model or a refence picture. In illustrator I used the pen tool to trace the outline of the model. After making the outline I had to shade it in to make the actual silhouette. To make one shape I combined the lines using shape builder, then I filled in the shape with one color. For the surrounded spaces I used the shape builder tool to delete the filled spaces so it’s blank.

Outline of the model
Silhouette of the outline (positive space)
A study of positive and negative contrast, where the clothes is positive and the body is negative with the outline
Testing out gradient and adding color to image in illustrator, and combining all the above images into one piece to study layering