Desmos Art Functions Card 2018

My class was asked to create a self portrait of ourselves as well as a word out of graphs made on Desmos during the holidays. Below is my attempt to replicate myself as best as possible (granted I am not a very artistic person). Right away an issue I encountered was underestimating the time it would take to complete this feat. I spent a lot of the time working on the face of the figure which I put the most of my work into. For the rest of the body although it took some work, admittedly I did spend less time focusing on it. The letters of my name were also a challenge, especially in creating rounding shapes, which took more time to complete than anticipated. A challenge regarding specific parts of my Christmas card was adding hair to my portrait. I ended up searching for ways to create hair on Desmos on the internet and was able to find a function where I could adjust and customize it to my will. The hair I added is not identical to the function I found online; I manipulated it to fit my characters head as well as made the “hair” look more fuller. Lastly a challenge I was not able to overcome was shading my figure. I ended up using more complex function than were probably necessary and because of it I was only able to outline my figure as well as the words in color. If I were to give myself honest criticism I will say that I definitely could have spent more time on the project. Although I don’t think the images themselves would be of nicer quality, spending more time finding out how to shade my figure would have added on to the finished product. I also should have made better use of function notation. That could have organized my work much better as well as make it easier to add on to my creation.

Link to the graph.

 

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