Cartoon Faces – Second Cartoon Portrait for Blog Community

Thanks to everyone who responded and here is the second cartoon portrait.

I’ve missed out mentioning that I will be putting up the cartoon portraits that I have done for you on my blog. However, in view of privacy, I will not post any name or any link that will connect to you unless you wish me to.

The above cartoon portrait is done using Adobe Illustrator and it does take some effort as I’m pretty amateur; below is a screen capture of the different noses, hairs and some tips on the tools used.

1. Using the Gradient Mesh tool – Do check out Veerle’s tutorial on gradient mesh.

This allows for different shading to have a more realistic effect.

2. The hair is not so easy to do.. it’s not perfect I know. I have used a combination of the tools:

Under Effects-> Distort and Transform -> Roughen and then follow up Crystalline

This is after I realised that using one single effect doesn’t quite acheive the effect.

From top right, the effects are Scallop, Crystalline, Pucker and horizontally, it’s Wrinkle, Bloat and followed by the original trace.

3. Noses require some simplification in cartoon and I have tried quite a couple before deciding on the one to use.

4. I have done this initially on .svg file using an open source software but then decided to use illustrator. Unfortunately, I did not save on an .ai file (illustrator format) when I have completed and subsequently could not re-open it on illustrator. So.. well, the source file is gone but the jpeg file still survives :OP