Poster Progress 1

I first started by scanning in a clean line art drawing of the girl and trinkets for my design and opened it up in illustrator. I used the live trace option to convert the outlines of my drawing from a bitmap to vector image. Using the live paint bucket tool I then started to fill in the the basic base colours for my poster on the same layer as the live tracing. 

I also had duplicated the live trace layer before I started filling the colours in and locked it so that I could shade in between both of them and the shading would go on top of the colour fill and behind the line art. I made a new layer and called it 'Skirt colour' and using the water colour brushes which appear very light, I started shading the skirt with greys and also using the blue from the upper half of the dress, and light washes of the red colour from the dress too to create shadows and highlights making the skirt appear more flowing and 3D and adding texture.

 

When I was finished with shading my skirt I locked the layer and added a new one. I used this layer to make fills using the pen tool to cut out the part of the shading that went over the outline of the skirt.