My croquis

Inspired by Joanne from Stitch and Witter, I too have made myself a croquis. The Colette sewing handbook has you trace a photo of yourself, but I decided to play around with with some programs I have on my computer to get a similar result. Here is me in all my pear shaped goodness.

To do it on the computer with no fancy software, I did the following:

1. Take photo against plain background in tight fitting clothing
2. Open photo in Picasso 3
3. Crop photo (Basic fixes)
4. Chose B&W in Effects
5. Save
6. Open in Paint.net
7. Select pencil sketch in Artistic (in Effects tab)
8. Play around with the pencil width - I chose 2
9. Select the Paint bucket and colour black
10. Invert colours under Adjustments tab
11. Save

Or instead of steps 9 and 10, open in Paint and clean up with the eraser.

I could have cleaned it up some more, but I am pretty happy with the results.

Now I think I will ponder my wonky body. No more denial.