Using inked art in Illustrator

- Digital methods can never fully replace tactile skills…and with hand lettering, most of the time,…you'll be drawing and inking it out in analog anyway.…Once you have your inked hand lettering,…all that remains is to scan it in…and create usable vector art from it.…This isn't a difficult process,…it just takes attention to detail to do it well.…Let me show you how I take my inked lettering…and turn it into vector artwork in Illustrator.…

Once you have your hand lettering inked out,…it's all about scanning it in…and then bringing it into Illustrator…in order to Image Trace it.…Now, on this specific design…you saw me ink out in a previous movie,…you can handle it one or two ways.…In this case, what you see on screen now…is how I initially scanned it in.…I could bring this exactly as showing here…and place it into Illustrator as I've done here.…This is a 800 dpi bitmap TIFF.…

Now, I'm going to auto-trace this…but as you can see…I haven't bothered to fill in…all of the inside areas of the letter forms…or for the character art, for that matter,…