When you have completed both your vector tracing and your freeform illustration of the object, create a few of each using colour. You can try one colour, two colours, or many colours. Avoid using gimmicky swatches and styles, like leopard print or rainbow.
Your first one should be dynamic, show variety in line type, quality and width. Be precise with your lines and vary the blacks and the whites in the illustration. Your second illustration should be more free and loose and should express more emotion. Your colour illustrations do not have to be realistic colour only. Try being abstract with the colours. Think Pop Art like Andy Warhol. Look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about.
Make sure you save your work in the illustrator format. It should have your name in the file and .ai at the end. DO NOT ADD ANYTHING TO THE .ai! namevectortrace.ai and namevectorfreehand.ai, and namevectortracecolour.ai etc.
Your next step is to post your illustrations to the blog and write a brief paragraph about them. 1. From Illustrator, save your illustrations under Save for Web (as a jpg) 2. From your blog, create a new post. Write a paragraph that describes the process you went through to create your illustrations, what tools you used, what you learned, which illustration you think turned out the best and why. 3. To add an image, find the icon of the picture in the New post window and browse for your saved jpg files.
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