Digital Self-Portrait

For my digital self portrait, I want to display a realistic copy of an original photograph and I'm planning to accomplish this through Adobe Illustrator. I've had some experience with self portraits on Illustrator before, but they've always been line drawings. I am used to capturing the shadows and defined lines in my images with the pen tool on a black swatch, so it will be interesting to do the same thing with actual color and fill.

Here is the image I will be using: