I didn't intend to stay up late working on this, but I wanted to play with an interesting workflow that Acrylic has enabled in the beta. I imported a picture of turtles my wife took this weekend as we canoed around Lake Washington over the weekend. After creating a pixel layer, I traced over the turtles in the photo with pixel brushes to make a simple pencil drawing kind of thing.
Then I created a vector layer on top of that and made the simplified shapes based on those sketches. For the shell and eye I applied an inner bevel effect, and for the legs and belly I did a simple drop shadow effect on each. Three small strokes for details (mouth, highlight on the nose, highlight on the shell) and select the gradients for the fills, and it is done. Not necessarily done in that order.
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