Retro Inspired Illustration: Exploring New Techniques

Hello there!

Yes, that is a portrait of me. One that I actually didn't mind of all the selfies I have taken. I do wear glasses most of the time these days. I hope to be done with them completely  one day soon. 

I stumbled upon another awesome tutorial I followed this week. Adobe keeps updating their programs  to keep me on my toes. I used to consider myself an expert, especially in Adobe Photoshop, however, there is so much more to this program than editing and enhancing digital images like I used to do during my photography days. The possibilities are endless!

In my search for a specific graphic design related retro style of illustration, I stumbled on this tutorial from Texturelabs on Youtube for Creating Vector Style Images without the pen tool. Link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGdGqcAQdMU

It definitely saves from having to hand draw everything when on a time crunch. I am going to try this out with other images and textures to see where it takes me. There was a lot of steps involved in this tutorial. One frustrating point I have with following tutorials online, is that they become outdated quite quickly, and some of the steps don't work when following along. Don't get discouraged! There is always another way to do things. In this case, the method in which they framed the contents was not working out for me. I found a work around by increasing the canvas size and creating a solid white background. I might try again to see if they fixed that bug in this latest update today, lol. If not, find another way around it.