Posted by Armin on Tuesday, January 04, 2011
![Raven illustration](https://www.amphioxus.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/article-icons/raven.png?itok=v1NRBkVa)
I took a photograph of a raven when we were at the Grand Canyon in April 2008 (see image below). I didn't really like the photograph too much, but it was a nice template for trying to create a vector illustration along the lines of what is shown here:
http://www.ndesign-studio.com/tutorials/tracing-photo
I drew outlines of areas with approximately the same color, reducing the number of unique colors to eight. I don't think I would have been able to get anywhere without my Wacom graphics tablet, which makes tracing the outlines fairly easy.
![](/sites/default/files/images/content/raven/ravenIllustration_originalPhoto.jpg)
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