Self-portrait!

Oh Yeah, my 1st ever self-portrait, using Pen-tool!
The original photos is like this

To create and explore the shadow and color of the skin actually i using quite some method:

Posterize it :

This is to get some layout of shadows 'pop out' so that i can create a more obvious shading, but i working with different layers so i reference both original pictures and posterized picture.

Like this, layers by layers to add different tone of shadings, colors.

When i am done with face and body featured part, i used Adobe Photoshop to edit my background to have a different media mixed together. I cut my background into 3 section, apply different textured on it and add some pop art colour so that the character will be more emphasis.

After all this, i used Adobe Bridge to adjust the colour saturation because the colour that i created is abit dull.

Before adjust the saturation

after adjust the saturation

The shading part and lighting part that i created using vector and pen-tool is still there, just the saturation become thicker and after that i use colour picker to create my colour scheme for this.So this is how i vectorise my own photo :D