Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

Figure 3-3 .

Establishing a Bitmapped

Tracing Template

In the previous lesson, I demonstrated how to draw artwork using a

tracing template based on Illustrator paths. A much more common

way to work is to take a digital image—whether a photograph or a

scan of traditionally drawn pen-and-paper art—and use that image

as a tracing template to recreate the art in Illustrator.

Throughout this lesson we’ll be recreating artwork based on a pic-

tograph I saw at Agawa Rock in Ontario, along the shore of Lake

Superior. The pictograph is of a mishipizheu, or underwater panther,

painted by the native Ojibwe people.

1.

Examine the evolution of the artwork. Open the

Bridge by choosing File➝Browse in Bridge or pressing

Ctrl+Alt+O (-Option-O on the Mac). Conversely, you

can click the icon in the application bar. From the Favorites

panel in the upper left, navigate to the Lesson 03 folder inside

the Lesson Files-AIcs5 1on1 folder, as seen in Figure 3-3. (This

assumes you followed the instructions in Step 10 on page 15 in

Lesson 1.) Inside the Original subfolder, you should see three bit-

Figures are misnumbered from here on Figure 303 is

actually the fi le Figure 3-4. Not a big deal -- David did

this but just fyi

map images: Mishipizheu.jpg, Mishi

sketch.jpg, and Mishi painting.jpg.

The fi rst fi le, Mishipizheu.jpg, is

the original photograph I took at

Agawa Rock, while Mishi sketch.

jpg is a ...