In the second part of our Illustrator induction, our task was to trace an image of Totoro and then fill him in to whatever colours we desired. I chose to fill it in the traditional colours to see how close to the original image I could get.
We first outlined one half of the image, and then copied, pasted it and used the reflect tool to them make one whole outline of Totoro. This saved a lot of time and is a trick I am familiar with. However, since the options and tools differ slightly to Photoshop, it took a little while to figure out how to do it. I also found layers to be more confusing than usual. For example, if I copied something and pasted it again, it would past it into the same layer. So when I would highlight it, it would take whatever was on the same layer with it simultaneously, which was very frustrating. So I just created a new layer, pasted it there and then joined the previous and current layer to overcome this issue.
What seems like a small task, actually took me a couple of tries to get right because I was getting frustrated and pressing the wrong tools. But I do think Illustrator is a really great software and I think I could get a lot out of it, in terms of its graphical aspects, rather than sweating it out in Photoshop.
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