My schedule is still wack. I woke up at 7pm last night. I was determined to break this schedule, so I stayed up all of last night, all of this morning, and now going into the evening..listening to music, watching the FoodNetwork Channel and working on a vexel of one of my favorite make-up artist, Kandee Johnson. I started reading her blogs and watching her YouTube videos in the last year. I love, love, LOVE her. Her makeup is great, and even more great is her personality. After watching so many of her videos, I would say that she’s a cute, bubbly, humble, sincere, fun, trendy, down-to-earth kind of girl. She’s an absolutely pleasure to watch. Check her out if you haven’t already!

So…my vexel of Kandee Johnson.

Here’s the original photo.

This would be the first person I did a vexel of in one sitting. Usually I take days, weeks, months to finish a vexel of a person. Why so long? I get distracted with other things and just get plain lazy to finish…or overwhelmed because I critique myself so harshly. I’m not the best at vexeling/vectoring, but I’m not bad either. I was looking at my old work on DeviartArt and said to myself, “and I thought doing THAT was hard?” Lol. It’s amazing how you see yourself improve over a few years. :]

So this vexel of Kandee took me about 8 hours to do! I know that’s pretty average. It took me longer because when I was drawing in the hair, I didn’t realize I was using a 1 pt brush until I was halfway through. Lol. Silly me. [Think the lack of sleep got to me]
I’m really proud of it. I’m starting to get the shading down a bit. I love vexeling, but I hate doing the skin. Tricky, tricky for me. I do love doing the eyes, lips, and hair [changed hers a bit]. I like how I made them turn out.
Don’t know what a vexel/vector is? Both are similar. You can google “vector vs. vexel”. In simple words, its like taking a picture of someone/something and turning it to a cartoon, almost. I’ve seen on DeviartArt where people are insanely good, that you couldn’t tell the different if it were a photograph of not. I almost feel like what’s the point if you make it so perfect? But it’s cool to see though.
Me…because I’m lazy and get frustrated with the shading of the skin, I keep a lot layers showing. :P You can’t really see here because the picture is on the small scale for a vexel. But I did it! ^_^

Here’s an animated gif of Kandee so you understand what I’m saying more.
Layers on top of layers. I grouped layers together so the gif wouldn’t take so long.

I believe this is my best work so far. :]

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