see da cedar

Same techniques as before (with a few new things: I intensified the colors by adding an inner shadow, and took it off the page with a bit of a drop shadow. How handy is the "X" key when switching back and forth with the hide and show while working on the mask . . .  very!



























Next, I grabbed the jpeg off of my blog and dragged it into illustrator, did a live trace with 9 colors and eliminated the lightest shadow to get this infinitely scaleable version of my drawing.