Vector 2

 Artboard 01

In pencil, draw an animal in a cartoon style using only closed contour lines.

No shading or hatching.

Your animal can be fictional.

Once you are happy with it, trace the closed contour lines with a Sharpie or thick marker.

Make sure there are no gaps.

Take a photo of this drawing in bright light (no shadows if possible).

Place the photo of your drawing on this art board; EMBED the image into your document.

Change the Artboard orientation to fit your artwork (Portrait or Landscape).

Create a Color Palette for your illustration using the Color Themes window, Adobe Color, or Coolors.com.

Place the color palette on Artboard 01, below your drawing.

Artboard 02

Place a copy of your illustration drawing on Artboard 01 and put it on Artboard 02.

Use Image Trace, Image Trace Window and Expand to create a vector graphic of the drawing.

Color it in using Live Paint Bucket.

Artboard 03

Place a copy of your drawing from Artboard 01 onto Artboard 03 to use as a guide. (Optional)

Re-create the illustration using only the Shape Tools (rectangle, ellipse, polygon, star, line) AND the Shape Builder Tool

If you used your original drawing as a guide, make sure to DELETE that layer when finished.

Artboard 04

Place a copy of your drawing from Artboard 01 onto Artboard 04 to use as a guide.

Re-create your drawing using ONLY the Pen Tool.

DELETE the drawing guide layer when finished.

Artboard 05

Re-create the example vector illustration.

Use a combination of all the tools and techniques you’ve learned so far…

Shapes, shape builder, pen tool, strokes, fills, gradients…

*Make sure to remove the original sketch from anywhere it was used it as a guide.

*Save the 5 artboards as an .ai file AND a single .pdf file. Upload both files here.

File Naming:

YourName_Lab 02 Vector Illustration.ai

YourName_Lab 02 Vector Illustration.pdf