Camera shot to Cartoon

'Before' 'After'

This was my first ever attempt to make a cartoon image, and I made this on Photoshop CS5 using the 'pen tool', 'brush tool', and the 'blur tool'

I basically went over the original image using the pen tool to get the basic outline, but to get the detail on specific things I had to work with what I had and add slight details as the original image is not great quality, and is over exposed due to the flash.

This took me roughly about 7 hours give or take, and I feel that it is time well spend do to the outcome.

To add colours I used the brush tool, and for things such as the corner of my eyes, my thumbnail and my lips I used a number of colours and used the 'blur tool' so I would mix them together for a better effect.

Finally, to finish with I added shadows, and to do this I selected the brush tool on another layer and coloured in the places I felt necessary, and once this was done, all simply had to reduce the opacity to give off the shadow effect.