This is a Type Portrait of Kobe Bryant. The reason I choose him is because he is my favorite basketball player and plays for the LA Lakers, my favorite NBA team.

To create my type portrait, I went into Adobe Photoshop and created two new layers. I used the pen tool to create paths for my text. I traced around the major lines of Kobe first like the head, mouth, and lips. After creating the paths, I used the text tool to type words associated with Kobe along the path like his first and last name, nickname, and the team he plays for. To create the “shadows,” I used used a light grey color for the text and warped it so it went along the side of his face and neck.