Typeface Portrait of Steve Jobs: How It Was Done

Remember the fantastic portrait of Steve Jobs using Apple’s classic typefaces from last week?  Here’s a step-by-step guide showing exactly how designer Dylan Roscover created it in Illustrator and Photoshop (24 hours straight hours of work, no sleep).

Dylan, a self-described ‘design nerd’ who lives in Aloma, Florida, explains:

“I used Adobe Illustrator and the Pen tool to trace his facial contours the way I figured they would make sense, one by one using the Type on a Path tool for each path.

The larger lines of type were hand-kerned character-by-character to fit accordingly. Near completion I used the Magic Wand tool to select areas of text and apply gradual shading.

Everything was composited in Adobe Photoshop as a smart object to give it that deep blue effect and the background  + texture.

In total it look about 24 hours to complete during three days with no sleep (class assignment).”

Click the pictures for Dylan’s detailed step-by-step instructions.

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