PS teach you to draw personalized cartoon portrait

Creating an online personal avatar or image is daunting, and if you're not satisfied with your image on the Internet, why not draw a cute comic portrait of yourself? This simple tutorial will show you how to make yourself cartoon, let's get started!

The pictures used in this tutorial:

White background, Asian business women with arms crossed

1th Step

Open your own picture in Photoshop. We'll use an image as an example. First use the Lasso tool to select the head.

2nd Step

Right key point free transform. Then adjust the size of the head to make it larger than the body. You can also turn your body smaller. We are going to draw a cartoon, so the more exaggerated the better.

First, create the base.

3rd Step

After all the exaggerated images have been set, paste the image into the illustrator. You can use your reference image as a guideline on the surface, or just to familiarize yourself with the functionality. In this case, we're going to use it to draw the basic contours of women.

Use the Pen tool to draw along the head, hair, clothes and main body. Make sure that the layers are set to make sure they overlap correctly. Not perfect also nothing, in the production to repair it.

4th step

A before we draw a face, we go ahead and finish a picture. First draw a uniform lapel, then (copy paste > Transform > Symmetry > Vertical: 90 degrees). Then add the rest of the shirt and collar.

B Add the shadow and folds on the arm, the color is black, and the opacity will be lowered to 45% after the drawing is finished.

To draw details of the costume.

5th step

We have to make more details on the neckline on the folds. Draw a long shape of water droplets. Copy and paste it several times, then hand-manually rotate each anchor point to fit the neckline shape. Grouped for them.

6th step

Now, draw your hair. The hair is made up of two parts, the back part is in the neck and the skirt, the front is fringe.

Draw face, eyes and eyebrows.

7th step

Now we're going to start drawing facial details.

A) draw a wing shape as the eye, and draw the whites. Use the Oval tool to draw a few circles as the iris, pupil and reflection. Use dark grey to draw the inner shadow of the eye to make it more stereoscopic and use the bright color of the flesh to draw eyeliner. Select the whole eye and enlarge it to make it have the effect of big eye cartoon. Copy and paste and symmetrical, place the second eye.

B create a new eyebrow. Copy and paste and symmetric. Put your eyebrows behind the fringe layer to get a better result.

Draw the nose and mouth.

8th Step

We continue to draw the details

A we just need to draw a half crescent shape and we can use it as a nose. Put this shape in the position of the diagram, you can use the previous good base diagram as a reference.

B) Draw your lips. Draw only one line as the lower lip. Under the lower lip, use the bright flesh that we used to paint our noses as shadows.

Add the last shadow detail.

9th step

Let's get back to the hair again. Use the eyedropper to select the color of your hair, and then make the color a little deeper in the color plate. Add a shadow to your hair to make it look fuller, and you can adjust the opacity if necessary. Add a layer underneath the hair to draw the shadow of the hair on the face, using the same color as the nose shadow.

If you use a cartoon portrait on a blog or somewhere, you can add text to the picture. Enjoy your new image!

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