Being Kamal Haasan's hardcore fan, I thought of designing something unique for his birthday; I was badly scratching my head to get a concept then accidentally I came across this idea.

I achieved this effect by adding some special ingredient in Illustrator and I have partially used live tracing to get an outline of the subject.
 
I have used 80% of Illustrator and 20% of Photoshop, It took nearly 5 hours for me to make this design more presentable in several other mockups.
 

Kamal Haasan (born 7 November 1954) is an Indian film actor, screenwriter, director, playback singer, choreographer and lyricist who works primarily in theTamil film industry. Haasan has won several Indian film awards (including four National Film Awards and a number of Filmfare Awards), and has starred in the greatest number of films submitted by India for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Haasan's production company, Rajkamal International, has produced several of his films.

 

After several projects as a child, Haasan's breakthrough as a lead actor came in the 1975 drama Apoorva Raagangal, in which he played a rebellious youth in love with an older woman. He won his first National Film Award for his portrayal of a guileless schoolteacher who cares for a childlike amnesiac in Moondram Pirai. Haasan was noted for his performance in Mani Ratnam's Godfatheresque Tamil film Nayagan (1987), rated by Time magazine as one of the best films in cinema history. Since then he has appeared in a number of films including his own productions, Hey Ram and Virumaandi, and the Dasavathaaram (in which he played ten different parts). In 2009, he completed 50 years in Indian cinema.

Information Courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_Haasan
Design Source: Aditya Dhotre Blog