Turn Yourself Into a Cartoon - by freshalex

If you want to learn how I made this cartoon image, please visit http://www.squidoo.com/How-to-Use-Adobe-Illustrator-Pen-Tool to learn how to use the pen tool. A couple of people asked how I made this... this will explain.

Vectorizing yourself into a cartoon can be done using Illustrator, but once you know the basics you can do it using any program that has a "pen tool". I put this video together to show you how I turned myself into a cartoon. I did this because I noticed some services/websites out there ( like Cartoon Me ) that offer to turn your pictures into a cartoon for a fee / price. So to show you just how easy (or difficult) it can be I recorded myself turning myself (and partner) into a cartoon.

Have you ever wanted to be a cartoon? There are plenty of tutorials to show you how to. This video is to show you my creative process that I went through to draw a cartoon version of myself. You can do this to create avatars. I use this picture for my facebook avatar. So it is a lot of fun.

Music by Cyberdread under Creative Commons Licences
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/43564

Category:

Howto & Style

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• cartoon me
• cartoon yourself
• cartoon myself
• turn me into a cartoon
• photo
• vector
• cartoon
• drawing
• illustrator
• vectorized
• graphic-design
• time-lapse
• avatar

[marwanios]

damn !!! this music is annoying and you work alot with the pen tool

[Alectrow]

@marwanios I know :)

[ChemicalAtTheDisco]

Wow, how long did it take to do this? :o

[Alectrow]

@ChemicalAtTheDisco a few minutes

[maggots4fishin]

All those leeches asking you to cartoon 'em for free. Why don't you set a price?.

[Alectrow]

@maggots4fishin yeah I COULD set a price but whats the point? no one will pay, would u? I do it for fun. so I will do it for free... for now ;) I get private msgs about this every day, but I cant do it for everybody.

[kittenkid123]

Wow it came out perfect!

[hasan2558]

looks better without the whiteness of the eye

[marwanios]

@Alectrow you uploaded the video and you know

[marwanios]

@Alectrow you know what about the song or the pen tool

[vaizaren143]

nice!

[MrCrazychriz]

SIR YOUR THE BEST!!!!~..

i wish i could make one too ;(

looks so hard to make..

please one for me Sir !!~

[briezeesb]

I am not sure if you do still do this for fun, but if you still check in here I would LOVE to pay you for doing a couple of these for my sons birthday super hero birthday :) I came on here looking to figure out how to do it myself but wow- you do great work! If it is something you are interested please contact me :)

[Showman558]

Send me a messange and give me your skipe name and one photo of you .

i cartoon you and send the image

image making mad 7 days