Create a caricature or likeness of yourself

[steve.ledger]

The purpose of this challenge is to create an opportunity to practice and learn to draw a funny caricature or close likeness of yourself using vector drawing tools only.
Seeing other people post their efforts should motivate and encourage those who perhaps thought their work wasn't good enough to show.
Remember this is a fun Challenge and is about participation. Everyone is welcome, there will be no winners or losers, just participants showing their own work.

Any vector illustration application can be used, though Xara Xtreme is obviously preferred.
But no LE's, third party filters/plugins, no bitmap fills or pixel tools at all and definately no software tracing programs. This must be by hand.
Using a graphics tablet or mouse it is possible to quickly rough-out a sketch when using a photo as a base referrence image.

This is also an opportunity for those members who preferred not to post a real photograph in the 'Portrait of TG' thread. Now you can represent your likeness via a caricature or as a close likeness.
TalkGraphics has a number of fine cartoonist members who should find this challenge interesting and easy to join in with.

Please keep your description brief (see below), any lengthly discussion about a submission from participating and non-participating members should be avoided or taken to one of the general forums where a new thread can be opened in order to discusses that particular piece of work, techniques used, tips and so on..

Anyone can enter this challenge, though please limit it to a maximum of two submissions.

One final note, please attach your image to you post - posts with hot-linked images to external hosts will be removed.
If you don't know how, please review Eggs tutorial here.

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My example took about 20 minutes.

My workflow was simple.
1) Import photo to layer 1 - lock layer
2) Create new layer and sketch-in the details.
3) Select all lines and set them to 2pix and 'Blip' profile.
4) Group all lines
5) Colorise using a vector brush, put color to back..