Adobe Illustrator’s Live Trace feature is a phenomenal way to transform a raster image into a vector image—or to put it more plainly—to turn a photograph into a drawing. Placing a raster ...

In Adobe Illustrator ( ), open the raster (pixel-based) image you want to use as the starting point for your avatar. Illustrator can directly open JPEG, TIFF, and many other raster file formats. 2.