It’s Wednesday, my fourth week of eight is dangerously close to being over, and I’m officially hooked on Illustrator. The assignment in Advanced Illustration is to come up with an illustration for a children’s book. It just so happens I have a project in the works that requires an Alice in Wonderland type theme so I decided to use this to work on that. 
Painstakingly tedious but awesome nonetheless. And REALLY not bad for someone who’s only ever sat down to draw one other face in her 30ish years of wielding a marking utensil.
I sketched up the above, after a couple of rather horrible attempts at going about it digitally to start. A quick TWAIN capture later, I was on my way to tracing her electronically. Hundreds upon hundreds of penstrokes, Ctrl+Zs, and drags of little tiny dots later. (After what felt like only an hour – but was closer to 3):
I went to sleep, finally crashing at about 2, and I swear I dreamt I was editing that sucker most of the night.
I couldn’t resist. As soon as I got my morning ‘duties’ out of the way and was waiting for the munchkin to finish getting ready for school, I hopped back into Illustrator to see if I could figure out where/how I needed to tweak to get her looking at least a little better. I didn’t get much done until I got back home from dropping her off at 8:30 and – only an hour or so of tweaks later – I proudly present this:
