Kismet Arts Tangent

Credit to Alan Shapiro for this image that I will transform in Illustrator. And God for making beautiful birds.

Adobe Illustrator class’ next assignment –color–

Step one: Create line drawing the old fashioned way (with a Sharpie).

Step Two and a Billion after that:
Create layer with the drawing and lock it. Over it, use pen tool and shapes tools to make the bird. Delete drawing. Get really confused about live paint and try to mend gaps in drawing. Use the color bucket to create colors and then select presets to color the bird with more “complementary” hues. Give up on trying to create line interest with the strokes due to all the layers of shapes that didn’t come through in the painting process. Abandon ship while it still looks okay. I am deathly afraid of deleting and saving and what else that the program does to mess with all the points, anchors and handles that are already on the darn thing. I can’t say this is the most simple thing to do, but I am sick of looking at a screen and I can’t figure out out to simplify this thing (this web of points, swoops, directions that are so intricately linked, though not visible in final view). Sigh.