Live Trace

 The artist of this original flower drawing is unknown. This is the first time that I have ever used the live trace tool. I realized that this is an very helpful tool to use, especially when scanning your own artwork into illustrator.

"Nectar"

 I was trying to achieve a really bright, colorful image by using vibrancy. I ran into some issues along the way. On my original drawing it looked like all of my paths were closed, but I had some slight openings. Therefore, I had to manipulate the lines in Illustrator using the direct selection tool once I scanned the image onto the computer. This proved to be very time consuming because the lines would not move in the way that I wanted them to. I also played with the gradients a bit to try to show the direction of the sunlight.