Gradient Mesh Tool Portrait

Have you ever come across any applications that vectorize your images and "cartoonifies" them or converts them into a 3D vector version of yourself?

Ever wondered how you can achieve this manually?

There are several ways to attain this.

If you have been following my blog or my Youtube channel, you must have seen my Gradient Mesh Tool tutorial, where I make 3D realistic fruits using Adobe Illustrator CS3.

In this new tutorial, we use the same technique to make a portrait.

The key to a perfect realistic image, is the detailing and the amount of time you give to it. As for me, I didn't give too much time to the details for this one as I am just demonstrating the technique quickly, but I will be working on this same outcome further to create the exact version of the original image in vector in the near future.

As for now if you are interested and curious to see how its done, you can view the video tutorial here.

Have a good day everyone!