Self Portrait Vector

So here is the final version of this, which is a college work I had to do in the Christmas holidays.

Anyway, the work was to do a self portrait in vector in Adobe Illustrator (and we had to do something 'silly' in the photo).

The tools I used was mainly the Pen Tool. I used the pen tool to do everything. Yes, I used the pen tool to do the hair, I didn't use any brush for this. I used gradients in some part and gaussian blur too.

What I wanted to do in here, was it to look mine, a vector work not just like others vector work. And the way I was able to do it was to make the face (the skin) look like it was done in photoshop, with a brush, just like I love to do I did random shapes and random shapes on the face, reduced the opacity to around 5%-8% and basically duplicated a lot of times. In some parts it looks soft, and in others sharp, that was what I wanted, that's what I do

Then, the hair, it took me a lot of time, you have no idea. And when I finished it, I decided not to make it like the skin, I decided for it to look like that. The same with the fluffy leopard ears and the clothing. I also loved doing the glasses. I love my glasses, and I loved to make the reflections and the curves.

Hope you like it! Comments are much appreciated