284 Tracing an avatar from a photograph in Photoshop

…Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland, welcome to Deke's techniques.…Now you're going to notice a couple of things upfront…here, first of all, I have this tragic scratch…along my arm, it's extremely painful, in case you're…curious, and it's the result of a bar fight.…Literally, I stumbled and fell into a bar.…It's, wasn't even at a pub or anything, it's very sad.…And secondly I'm wearing this brightly colored shirt to try to distract you from…the scrape on my arm.…I don't know if it's going to work or not, we'll see.…Now this week begins a series of three weeks devoted…to an exploration of how to create a custom avatar.…

That is a profile picture. However, rendered as a cartoon.…And, so by way of example, I'm going to take this image, this photograph of…my good friend Colleen, and we're going to turn her into this cartoon right here.…And I want you not to follow along with me with Colleen necessarily, but rather to do…this same thing with a picture of yourself so…you can end up with your own custom avatar.…Now, we're going to start things off in this movie, inside of Photoshop.…