AI The Dreaded Redraw Illustrator Tutorial
Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by Che McPherson in Illustrator, Intermediate
We’ve all dealt with it as designers at one stage or another, or if you haven’t listen up this tut may just save you some valuable time in the future.
As designers we are used to getting files supplied to us, unfortunately it never comes just how we planned we constantly get bombarded with ” oh just take the one off our website it will be fine for the new sign we want out the front” or “here’s something my son designed earlier.” and don’t think this is limited to small stuff agencies deal with the same problems everyday.
So in this tutorial Ill show you it is some times quicker to redraw rather then work with a pixelated jpg. I show you how to redraw a fairly simple character one most of you would already know and love “The WOO Ninja” but the point of the tutorial is that you can learn the skills to redraw the next time you run into this problem.
HUGE shout out to the WOO Themes Team and to my man Adii pronounced ay dee not how I say it on the video 
or maybe its just my aussie accent you be the judge 
Also I have to laugh a couple of times in the video I call the gradient mesh tool the magic wand tool… I sort of don’t use the words to much I have them buried right next to comic sans.
As mentioned in the video here’s some M&M’s characters I had to redraw for a project which just goes to show you no matter how big the project still be prepaired for the dreaded redraw.
If you have any questions at all please drop me a comment.
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Woo! New TUT’s! Kick ass as always che!
Nice Tutorial great introduction to the gradient mesh, I hope to see another with that same tool
Cool, Have been waiting for a new tutorial for a while… Thanks.
Great tutorial for a task we all face. Great drawing tips, selecting colors for gradients and use of the new gradient tool — you even worked in a bit on gradient mesh.
Great job.
Isn’t the WooNinja just a ripoff of the Ninjatown characters?
http://www.ninjatown.com/cast.php
Seems to me its just the Ninjatown ninja with ears and WOO on his chest.
If you don’t see the similarities… you are probably blind.
Could totally relate to your story in the beginning. ALWAYS getting jpeg logos/graphics. I don’t know what it is, but I find redrawing rasters in Illustrator extremely refreshing…strange, right ?
Anyway, thanks for the tut ! Stay cool P:
-b
Dope work. Love the tuts. Hope you do some more soon.
wooow i just loved it.. i’m new to illustrator and learning so many things.. thank you so much for this tips n tut.. learner some new tricks..
i will love to see more tuts from you… thank you
pretty goot tutorial, funny to see that we do a lot of things quite the same… the only thing I would add is about finishing the shapes on the sides that are hidden by other parts, like the arms or the ears in this case.
You say that it doesn’t matter what you do back there, because that area will be hidden. I have taught myself to always draw that part rounded, because you just never know when you’ll need it for animation. An animator will be eternally grateful, because it will save him a lot of time, while it will cost you no real extra work.
Thanks for the tut!
Very good point Diego… This is definitely something I do when Im designing with animation in mind and probably a good habit for all character illustrations.
Nice… very cool tutorial.
Great tuts! Next time please tell something more about gradient mesh, would love to learn it better. Thanks!
.,i accidentally saw your site from one of the PS tuts that i was browsing to. . and i must say your tuts are amazing. .
keep it up. .
thanks. .
lol
amazing tut… thanks
Great tutorial! you make this stuff look soo easy, I think I can, I think I can, =}
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your tuts rock!!!
thanks for this tutorial
it help me lot of things…
Tutorial added to thewebtuts.com
I’m a semester before I’m out of art school and already have clients asking me to recreate their jpeg logo. Can I ask what sort of price do I charge for this kind of work and what precaution to take (copyright issue, contract issue, etc)?