Final Project in Computer Illustration

For our final project in VT2500, we had to make a vector-based self portrait. Let me explain what vectors are. In Photoshop, the majority of the time you are working with pixels. You can see them if you enlarge an image to much on your screen, they look like little squares and the edges start to look jagged. Some people call it pixelation.

In Illustrator the majority of the time you work with vectors. Unlike pixels, vectors don't lose their integrity when you enlarge them, they look just as good on a postage stamp or a billboard.

Here is the Wikipedia page that explains vector graphics a little better than I can.

The above image is a JPEG, so it's pixel-based and the quality degrades if you go to big