Today it was already much easier to draw my mascot from yesterday. - Despite the little joy with the triangle, it took only half the time to create the illustration below. There are still some tiny differences to the original, but this is simply a question of practice. Unfortunately I "cheated" a little bit using Photoshop for the hands behind the triangle, since the implementation for this purpose became less complicated and time consuming (It is no longer a vector file.). But this is not so important, because the triangle is just a photo and not made with Illustrator. The illustration is therefore limited by the pixels and sharpness of the triangle anyway.
Adobe Illustrator - Day 1
Since years I mostly work with Adobe Photoshop for graphic design purposes. - But I had to recognize a long time ago that there are even better programs with which I might be able to achieve much better results. To improve my skills, to perfect the personal work flow, and to qualify for new divisions, one of the applications I want to get used to in 2018 will be Adobe Illustrator.
I quick-drew the fictional character Amy Rose by Sega, scanned it, opened it in Illustrator, and tried to trace the face as good as possible. Since the interface and tools of Illustrator and Photoshop differ, it was more difficult than expected. - But not impossible after all.
To have some help I currently practice with a manual "Adobe Illustrator CC - Das umfassende Handbuch" by the author and designer Monika Gause. Up to now, I can totally recommend this book since all descriptions are easy to understand and underlined with hundreds of screenshots. ISBN: 978-3-8362-4505-0