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[loco]

I have this logo design I'm doing for an old friend. I thought I would show you all my process.

Here's the pencil sketch


I'll take this into Illustrator and retrace it

-loco

[loco]

I opened the picture in Illustrator and went to layers and made it a template. then made a new layer and began tracing it with the pen tool



-loco

[g for giant]

That's one nice pencil sketch!

[thejuice]

loco what are the advantages of making the file a template in illustrator?

[loco]

I use to trace on the same layer never knowing about the template layer.
It helps keeping them seperate layers. The advantage for me is I trace with the pen tool layer in outlines (Ctrl Y) then the image I'm tracing is a ghost layer.

[loco]

This is how I have my layers set up while I trace



-loco

[thejuice]

very cool thanks!

[Steve Chanks]

That's some good logoin'

[loco]

Still a work in progress but, here's what I have so far



-loco

[thejuice]

right on! coming along