This is the first step to the cardboard portrait making. I outlined my face, hair, and neckline, before highlighting the parts of my face that seemed to be darker and lighter than my skintone. 

This step was quite tedious for me because I found it hard to keep the carbon paper still. I made some changes along the way but I was quite happy with the end result after I was done with everything. 

After finishing the previous step, it was time to start with the cardboard for the real product. I traced out all the highlights and features of my face out onto the cardboard. The details will be described further...

I traced out the base of my upper body by retracing the final drawing I made, going according to the shape of my face. I found cutting the shape out very hard as cardboard is a lot harder to cut than paper. 

The hardest part about this step for me was still keeping the carbon paper still while retracing all the features. I also had to keep track of what I had already traced and what I still needed to trace. 

The step that I found the hardest to complete was cutting out all the details of my face since I was not used to cutting cardboard and found it slightly difficult to cut the small parts out. 

The hair base was already pasted in this photo. We needed to paste the hair base to put on our real hair design. From this onwards, I was given more creativity space to think about what I wanted my design to look like. 

I choosed the curvy cardboard for my hair because I wanted this texture in my hair. I made some slight changes to the waves in my haird and traced them out from my final drawing. 

Here is the finished product of my hair. I choose brown paper as the base since I wanted to try giving my hair a new colour, with curly cardboard for the highlights to represent the waves in my ponytail. I think the result came out quite well. 

I put valcro on my hair base and sticked my finished hair on top of my face. I did not really like the result of my hair because I found the hair to be of of a colour that was a little too light, but I think the waves made the hair look quite good. 

I wanted to go with a simpler design for my shirt, making a simple blue blouse out of the oreo packaging and using a coffee capsule packaging for the highlights of the shirt. I think this came out relatively well. 

I added valcro to the back of my body base, sticking my blouse design onto my body. I think the shirt came out quite good since it gave my a lot of creativity space and I was able to do a easier design.