Drawing Selfies

Today I started wring on Adobe Illustrator for the first time, as I'm working towards being able to draw a self portrait. The picture above was drawn using the pencil tool. I also used some of the shape told to create the pupils of my eyes as I wanted them to be symmetrical. 

Before starting the portrait I worked on learning how to use the shape tools. First of all you draw the path which is the shape itself, then the stroke draws a line around the shape and finally the fill colours the whole shape. I used the shape tools and altered the stroke and fills to create a wonderful firework display, image below!