Before beginning to create any artworks, I started my research process on what kind of art I want to create first. I came across the video below on how to make digital versions of photos. I have seen these kinds of digital illustrations on Instagram and other social media platforms, and I thought that it would be something cool to start this CAS experience off with.

For my own digital illustration, I began with choosing a picture I wanted to transform, which was a picture of me and my friends. I copied what the tutorial did with outlining and filling in those outlines by directly dragging the top right color circle into the outlines. After filling out those outlines, I started to refine each of them. This was the hardest part as I had to make sure the edges are smooth, so I needed to make the actual photo invisible. Simultaneously, the proportions still needed to be correct. The colors sometimes were too dark since the original picture had pretty heavy shadows. This meant that I  had to rematch some colors.

Here is the final product:

This was the original photo: