I decided to try and draw a low-poly style polar bear face for this project. The live page is here: http://itp.jscottdutcher.com/bear_face/
Preliminary sketches.
I started this drawing on a 640 X 300 point canvas, a size that seemed like a good idea at the time. Every shape was plotted relative to the top of the long ‘snout’ triangle, point (320, 70). Plotting was relatively easy, since the drawing is symmetrical. I used a bright read background while I was working so I could see where shapes weren’t lining up correctly.
As I drew out the face it became clear that 640 X 300 was not the right canvas shape for this bear, so I upped it to 640 X 600.
Then I added 200 points to all y-values to move the drawing down the page.
Outlines of all the shapes.
I picked the colors in Sketch, that way I could choose the colors using a color palette instead of messing with RGB values in the code.
I put most of the colors in on a shape by shape basis. Grouping shapes by color and ‘colorizing’ the group would have been a way better way to go, but I did not think that far ahead this time.
Lastly I removed the stroke from the shapes and made minor adjustments to how the shapes lined up.