Portrait progress and AI tool post

My progress thus far on my portrait piece:

It's eventually going to be more than Steve's giant nose- I think I'm going to have him standing on something that trails down the canvas (hence the huge white space). We'll see how the rest of it turns out!

There are a few tools in Illustrator that I have yet to use. One of them is the gradient tool, which allow you to control value scales within your work. It's pretty neat, but I've never used it much in Photoshop so I don't know if I'll end up doing much with it in Illustrator. Anyway, you can learn more about it here.