This detail makes me incredibly happy.

I feel like I’ve finally come to a point where I feel comfortable using Illustrator and Photoshop to manipulate my hand drawn sketches into finished products that actually look like what I envisioned in my head from the start. As with many of the things I enjoy, I’m completely self-taught when it comes to digital drawing. I’ve read people criticize illustrations that appear to rely too heavily on the “live trace” function of Illustrator, but I use it to finesse certain pieces of illustrations I’ve drawn by hand and transferred to the computer (usually with my digital camera— I need a scanner). Even then, I go back in and retouch to adjust angles and thickness.

If using live trace this way is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.