There are many ways to create vector portraits - in Photoshop or Illustrator.
Here are a few tutorials that I found that seem fairly straightforward. The basic essentials are as follows:
Use Photoshop to alter the photograph so that it is reduced to 15-20 layers or tones instead of a continuous tone photograph. You can use smart blur, cutout filter, posterizing etc. You can also alter the colour balance and change the hue/saturation of the image to play around with different colours.
Once you have something you are happy with, copy the image into Illustrator to begin tracing.
You are tracing the shapes that create the various values and tones in the image. You can choose colours and tones from the actual photograph to fill the image, or finish tracing and then add tones later.
Continue buildling and adjusting as you go.
Here are a few tutorials to try. You may find some aswell for yourself.
http://bit.ly/tqdRKs Spoon Graphics Blog
http://adobe.ly/wMjcvi Adobe TV-Max Design: This is a very long video on Adobe TV. Please don't waste your time watching this in class, but you might want to check it out at home.
http://bit.ly/bi4WUZ This one seems really good, though I haven't tried all the steps. It's from Digital Arts Online. While it's a bit complicated, I think it might be one that gives you the most control and detail.
Also check out this guy's work. He's fantastic. http://www.eelcovandenberg.com/
Eelco Van Den Berg is an illustrator based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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