This is a digital illustration of my own profile photo, just to practice illustrations and make a cartoon version of myself to use as my Instagram Profile Picture. This was done all in Adobe Illustrator. I simply took my profile photo as a reference as the bottom layer and used mostly the pen tool to create the outlines. Then on a separate layer, I colored in the main shapes. I did two more layers for the face colors, one for highlights and another for shadowing. Then the final step was using the brush tool and using a small stroke to manually paint in the eyebrow hair and facial hair. Once I was happy with the look of everything, I put it on top of a blue gradient background.