Here’s a picture of my conics project.
Ref image:
To start off, I began to shape the outline of my face. As you can see in my reference image, my head is for the most part asymmetrical. This served as a challenge when graphing since I couldn’t use an absolute value function or a circle or etc. Instead, I had separated the outline of my face into different sections and using mainly hyperbolas with restrictions to create the curved edges of the image. When forming the actual features of my face, it was tricky to say the least as one, the image was very blurry and two, my mouth was open in the photo. Due to this, I had to use an ellipses within an ellipses to portray my open mouth and three circles and an absolute value function to form the tongue. Creating my nose stumped me at first as forming the sharp upwards curved angle was hard to form using any of the conics shapes. Eventually, I landed at the idea of using a log function from unit five. Plus, two circles to form my massive nostrils. The remaining features were pretty easy from there as my pupils were not visible in the photo along with my hair perfectly outlining the shape of my cranium. Therefore, I just used a massive circle roughly cut in half for my head and just a mix and match of straight lines and a cut ellipses for my eyes and eyebrows. Initially, I thought of using inequalities to shade my face but this was something I could not figure out due to the asymmetry. Adding a bit more texture to my hair was also an idea but shaping each individual hair follicle turned out to be too tedious and too messy in practice.