This is a hard tutorial that may take some time, but it really worth it! This will teach you how to get those real vectorised people! And not by using filters...

This tutorial will teach you how to make vectors like those nice and populair cell-shades!

• Step 1 Open up an image of a person where you can see the head and a little bit of the torso;

  

• Step 2 Go to Image>Adjustments>Posterize and choose the rigth amount of levels that will give you a result like mine;

  

• Step 3 Then pick a medium skin-color and select all the skin with the pen-tool and fill it ON A NEW LAYER;

  

• Step 4 Select a little darker color and do all the shadow on the torso;

  

• Step 5 Then select a very dark skin-color and make the shadows complete;

  

• Step 6 Now use a brown-pink color for the shadow under the chin;

  

• Step 7 Choose the same light-shadow for the face;

  

• Step 8 And do it exactly like the torso;

  

• Step 9 Now add some shadow around the eye and use the dodge-tool to make little white lines above the eyes;

  

• Step 10 Then, vectorise the clothes;

  Note:I JUST DID A BLACK DRESS TO SHOW YOU THAT YOU DON'T REALLY NEED TO DO THE SAME, JUST IMPROVISE...

  

• Step 11 Start with the lower-lip and with a bright pink color;

  

• Step 12 Use a deep-red color for the upper-lip and finish of with some strokes of the burn-tool and the dodge-tool;

  

• Step 13 Create a small line that seperates the both lips from each other;