How to Use a Pencil Drawing for Illustrator Artwork

You can use a pencil drawing as the basis of your Adobe Illustrator artwork. These instructions apply to Adobe Illustrator 8. Procedures for other versions may vary.

Things You'll Need

• Scanners
• Adobe Illustrator

Instructions

1. Scan your drawing into the computer, and bring it into Illustrator.

2. Activate the Autotrace tool.

3. Position the crosshair on the object you want to trace.

4. To trace the entire object, click on the object and Illustrator will draw the path.

Tips & Warnings

• To autotrace part of an object, click the object on the point where you want the path to start and drag it to the place where you want the path to end. Alternatively, you could place your scanned drawing in the file as a template layer and then trace over it manually with the pen or other drawing tool.