Back in December 2014, I came close to a position working on art assets for an educational online project. However, while they liked the sketches I drew for them, the job required assets made as vector graphics, and at the time, I had no experience working with vector graphics. They had to turn me down, and in retaliation (kind of), I did the only thing which made sense: I started to learn Adobe Illustrator.
To be honest, I am still not too well-versed in Illustrator and have not used it much since then. Aside from the 30-day trial provided (which apparently renews each year, luckily), it would cost about $20/month to use Illustrator. I am not completely sure if I would use Illustrator enough to warrant that (although lately, I am drifting toward “yes”), so for vector-based needs, I have instead turned to a program called Inkscape. It is free vector graphic software, and though it is not quite as intuitive as Illustrator nor has as many line style options, it gets the job done.
This time, I wanted to show one of the images I created during my trial of Illustrator, from December 2014 to January 2015. Although this version is saved as a PNG file, I created everything in this image in Adobe Illustrator. Behold the froggy glory of Greninja!
