Yes, another vexel. :) This is a friend of mine. I wish I had her hair! So pretty. 
Not only do I like playing with makeup in real life…I like doing it in photoshop too. So I did this vexel in two versions.

Click first two to enlarge:


More glamourous one:


Original (I don’t own this):


Here’s the progression: 

Right when I was about to blog about this, I realized I forgot her beauty mark. I had already shut down photoshop, saved the images, and uploaded them to a host. How annoying. I hate having to open up photoshop again (or on accident). Anyways, thats why there’s no beauty mark in the animated pic. 

This one took me hella long to do. Mainly because of all that hair she has. I did this one for about three days on and off. First day, I did the base, the nose, and brows. Second day, the eyes and lips. The third day, the hair, shirt, and background. I took the longest on the hair. I’m guessing a total of 24 hours. I don’t know how people claim to do detailed vexels in 4-5 hours.

I hate how saving images (and gifs) for the web is such a disappointment. The coloring of these images are so off. Saturated. If ya know what settings are the best, please tell me. I use Adobe Photoshop CS4.
Is it even the program itself? Or is it my Mac, your Windows, Chrome, IE, and Firefox? Ughh…I just suck. 

Don’t bother asking me to do one of you unless you’re gonna pay me. :) I don’t think alot of people know how much work is put into one of these. That’s why I like showing the progression. 
I do these as a hobby. I usually just browse through family and friends’ pictures on fb, save some that I like (those I don’t think that would mind :X), and turn them into vexels. 

Yawn. So tired. Been up all thru the night and morning. Graphic designing = insomnia for me.  

[progression]


It’s been a long time since I’ve made a vexel or vector. Probably because making one of these causes me to lose major sleep. Once you start, you can’t stop. Well, I stopped once. That was yesterday. Today, I decided to just finish it. Now it’s 9:10am…and I still haven’t gotten sleep. :X

My brother took a cool picture with his camera phone. Not the best quality, but I love it. I decided to turn it into a vexel. I used Adobe CS4. It took me roughly 16 hours from start to finish, on and off. Gosh, I feel like I take forever. Especially since I only posterized it to 4. Lol. 

A better look: Click to enlarge


This is the original:

This the photo posterized at 4, my reference:

I’ve definitely done better, but not so bad, ya? I’m not too happy with how the sweater turned out, but I don’t feel like fixing it. And it took me forever to just get the sweater done. I found myself just sitting there, staring at my screen. 
The facial hair was done strand by strand, of course. Fortunately, he was wearing a hat. :) 

Love you, Paul. Miss you. 

Check out my other work by click the DeviantArt link at top.  

Okay, now I’m going to sleep. Good morning…