Custom Portrait

Things to remember.

• Open Illustrator in the Applications folder

• Start a new document either portrait or landscaped.

• You must File–>Place your image into Illustrator not open it.

• Lock your picture layer.

• Add a new layer for different items in your drawing. Example: Face, Eyes, Teeth, Hair

• Lock layers as you finish drawing them.

• Start drawing your image.

• Shift+Command+A deselects the line.

• After completing all of your drawing move on to the next step.

• You must change the lines by Selecting all of your lines, and then going to the Brushes palette and Click where it shows below.

• Open the artistic-> Artistic_ChalkCharcoalPencil brushes.

• Choose "Charcoal Smooth"

• Now change the stroke to .25

Export your file to Photoshop.

Go to File->Export

• Change the Format to Photoshop. Then push Export.

• Change the resolution to High, and choose Flat image. Then push OK.

Open the exported .psd file in Photoshop.

Proceed to step 10 on the Custom Portrait.pdf file on your desktop.