You're damn right that's Samuel L Jackson. Respect the man.
Right away I knew I wanted to do something a little different with the art style. I knew I wanted to create a celebrity and Samuel L Jackson was the first person that came to mind... for some reason. I just decided to run with it.
Rather than just use solid colors to create a cartoon-like representation of this person, I chose to use a picture of him instead. This proved to be more difficult than I had first anticipated since I had to use several photo manipulation techniques in order to realistically map his face and head onto the template. I first put a cutout of his face onto the template and then used content-aware fill to fill in the area around it. Unfortunately, content-aware doesn't work well with people, so I had to use the content-aware spot healing brush to remove all the extra eyes and mouths that filled in the blank spaces. After I cleaned it up a bit, I used the rubber stamp tool to fill in the other sides, and then used some more photo composition to add an ear to each side. To create his suit, I used the paint brush tool. I also removed the fold lines on his head as they didn't seem to go well with the "realism" look.
If I were going to create a story or setting for my character, I'd probably recreate a scene from "Pulp Fiction." Though I'd have to give Sam an afro, facial hair, and a Colt 1911 first.
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