An experiment in Image Trace. As with any experiment, it brings with it failures and successes.

Long story short, I was up until 5:30 AM last night/this morning finishing a midterm project animation (linked below), and I tried to use Illustrator's "Image Trace" tool to quickly generate vector-based character art for it using some sketches I had made.

The top is the result of just using Image Trace on the image itself, along with the Live Paint Bucket tool. The result: Discount Foreign Market Bootleg Ungur, otherwise known as Ugnar.

The bottom is the result of taking a sketch and doing the illustration in Photoshop as pixel-based art, THEN bringing it into Illustrator and rendering it into vector art using Image Trace (which I only discovered was the intended purpose of the tool DURING the middle of working on the project that was due THE NEXT MORNING). The result: Slightly off-color but still very clean and gorgeous Officially Licensed Art of Ungur, my fursona.

The moral of the story: Don't go into Illustrator half-cocked, kids.
https://youtu.be/3N8F7K_Yd-I