How to make a sick looking Farmer Skeleton even more cool looking in Illustrator!!!!!

awesome, so now we have our natural looking farmer skeleton!

1.its saved as a png or a jpeg what every you want. We then go into illustrator and go into file button then slide your cursor down to (place).

2.then change the size of it with your black cursor button to whatever size you want. 

3. when you click on the picture in the tool bar it should already come up with an image trace button, if so click it. another tool bar with more alteration buttons for image trace will come up and you can tweak the numbers to change the photo if you need to. this one worked out almost perfectly so i didn't have to change it that much. i then pressed expand and that gave me all the paths and anchors i need to alter the photo. 

4. with the white cursor click on the white background in  the photo. press the delete button on your keyboard. 

4. put in a circular border with the circle tool back sure it is behind the skeleton you want the hat to poke out (just use the stroke color and leave the filler nonexistent)

5.then put another circle behind the skeleton and behind the circle border.

6. with the square shape maker put a color in the background....far background.

7. then some words..i warped mine around the circle. kind of made it look like a woodstock poster to me. all that matters is if you like it.

8. THEN BOOM YOU SHOULD BE DONE!!!!!!

don't worry if the coloring might be off i made 10 different ones trying to find good color combinations to represent what i wanted to show. 

here is a few final examples.

how to make a sick looking farmer skeleton in photoshop!!

so for my propaganda poster it seemed pretty basic but you have no idea how much work it got into making a farmer skeleton.

 1. find an awesome skeleton!

On photo shop make sure the background layer isn't in eye mode. Then take your fun little magic wand tool and delete all the original white background in the photo!!! should be pretty easy. 

 2. i search far and wide for a farmer hat that looked right, i looked for texture, coloring, if i wanted to make it simple with clip art or find a real one. i ended up finding this farmer... i don't know his name so we will call him FARMER FRAN! THANKS FARMER FRAN FOR LETTING ME ERASE YOU IN PHOTO SHOP AND STEAL YOUR HAT! MANY THANKS!!!

3. I  needed to find a way to make the skeleton look like he is wearing the hat, so i decided to split the hat in two. the top part to be placed upon the skeletons head and the second was to be placed behind the skeleton. 

a. top layer (layer1)

b. bottom layer (layer 3)

AWESOME! NOW WE GOT THE BASIS OF OUR SKELETON IN PHOTOSHOP BOOM POW! 

now you just need to save as a png(i like to do this because when you save it saves with no background and when you place it in Illustrator you don't really have to mess with the extra deleting of white space.)

fixed the farmer 

Save a Farmer.... buy locally

propaganda sticker....

I made this to show that we need to keep our local farmers in work buy purchasing our produce directly from them instead of purchasing produce from the grocery stores that do not support local farmers. 

abstract text

I took my initials that I normally use when signing not so important documents because well i leave my middle name out hence not important.... MVS

I made each letter a different font, M was a fancy curly one, the V was a basic strong looking font and the S was a not so curly looking font but still pretty curly. 

I added more anchor points with the pen tool to the V and the S where ever i felt had too much of a space between the original anchor points. 

After banksy presentation.... muse...

Even though i like the clean lines in the original i feel the graffiti style ruggedness fits my personality more.