This is a piece I made following a tutorial, Create a basic vexel image. I had a fellow classmate take a picture of me standing on a table. Then I used the pen tool, quick selection tool and color range to select  parts of my body. Then i used the bucket tool to fill them in. I used overlays and the pen tool to add all the features to me. Then i made the stripes and used a gradient overlay and stroke. And for the vexles, i used preset gradient overlay.