16 Zhang Tianle

The contour outline drawing is the first step of making the cardboard relief portrait. Tracing the features of my face were simple and not difficult. I added some highlights that matched my face as I decided not to follow the lighting in that photo since it would have been more difficult for me to cut it out later on. Overall, it started off very well with little to no difficulty for me.

The contour outline blueprint is done by placing the carbon paper underneath the contour outline drawing and retracing everything including the newly added highlights. This was a little frustrating for me because sometimes when I am halfway through tracing, the picture moves and I have to readjust it to make sure it alines with the other traces so that the blueprint does not seem messy.

In this step, what stressed me the most was the cutting of the features on my face. It was difficult to cut cardboard with a scissors as the cardboard always gets in the way and I have to stop constantly to cut the excess cardboard away so that it does not affect my cutting. I think I should have used a sharper and stronger scissors because the cutting was not easy and the pieces did not turn out as sharp as I hoped for it to be.

For me, assembling all the pieces was quite easy because what I needed to do was just to apply glue and paste the cut-out pieces on the face shape. It got a little messy sometimes when the glue gets onto the table and sticks to everything. However, this step was still overall quite simple and easy for me. It was fun too.

The hair backing was a little annoying for me to make because the cutting of the shape of each strand of hair was really difficult to cut with a pair of scissors. I constantly got frustrated and even gave up at some point in time where I was wondering why my face looked so strange.

This was relatively easy as the material for the hair pieces are not as difficult to cut as the thick piece of cardboard. I glued each hair piece onto the thick cardboard that will be place on the portrait later on. Overall, this step had barely any difficulties for me. However, I was a little hesitant with the way the hair looks like as it didn't look the way I thought it would. I didn't know how to cut the ponytail like in the photo so I just decided not to.

I chose this Pocky snack cardboard as it was thin and easy to cut, and it also had bright colours that I think could make a unique shirt for my portrait. My intended design was to use the pocky box for the top half of the shirt and scraps of other cardboard for the bottom half of the shirt.

This is half of the shirt done. 

This is the completed shirt. For the bottom half of the shirt, I decided to use random scraps of cardboard I found in my house and I 

For this step, I was measuring where to place the velcro so that the face would match with the portrait. This was necessary for me as I wanted both sides of the velcro to be in the same place such that my face would not be slanted when the velcro is combined together.

First, I started off by putting one side of the velcro on the portrait. I did this as I wanted to make sure that this was was the place the other side of the velcro will be stuck to so that the face will be matched to the shape of the portrait backing. This was an easy step for me.

Next, I placed the other sides of both velcros on the back of the face. I measure extremely carefully for this step and I realized what I should've or could've done was paste the whole velcro on only either the portrait or the face, and then just match the other part to it as both sides of the velcro have a sticky tape on it which helps it stick. I think I could have done it in a faster way.