I've displayed the illustrator process above this segment. To start, I traced the original image and created an outline with the pen tool, a tool that is used to create vectors (1). It was a tedious process but I managed to create a good outline to work off of. I then got rid of the black outline and filled the shapes with the base colours (2). For the jersey text, I figured out that utilising the outline option on the pen tool will save me from creating extra shapes to display the outline of the text. 

Now that the base colours had been added, I began using the shape builder tool, A tool that merges and separates segments of the vector to create unique shapes. I started to create some of the shadings on the vector, imitating the shadows from the original image (3). This was even more tedious than just creating an outline because of how accurate I had to be. Nevertheless, I managed to create a few shadings. 

Dennis Rodman was known for his crazy hairstyles, as mentioned before. In the original, he had some circle designs on his hair but I decided to replace them with Nike logos just so I could clearly link it to my client. I first re-drew the Nike logo (4). I then created a square and placed the Nike logo I drew in different angles and sizes (5). I then grouped them all together and placed them on top of the hair (6). Then to make it all fit, I used the free warp tool and fit it on top of the hair, then removed any shapes outside the hair piece. After merging it all together, the vector was almost complete. In total, over 200 layers were needed to create this piece (view above). All that was left was some post-processing in Photoshop.

Photoshop Process

In the beginning, I intended to just have the background as the original photo, but then came to realise that the background of the original was reasonably bland, and it didn't work. I had to think outside the box. 

I attempted to merge a portion of the original photo and create a "ripped page" effect. First, I cut a corner of the original photo. I grabbed a ripped paper '.png' file and merged both of the photos together and rubbed out any overlapping lines using the eraser tool. I then added a light drop shadow to the ripped paper to give it a little depth. I tried to keep the  As for the rest of the background, I used the original photo and used 'gaussian blur' to make it blend more. To make it seem a little more like a poster, I added a few Nike logos on the front. 

I then exported that and opened it up in a new document. I added a little noise to the photo to give it a slight vintage look. I then duplicated the layer and added a lot of motion blur and decreased the opacity to 14% to give the photo a light glow.