I hate vector art.
Well... really dislike it. I feel compelled to say it point that out. I was testing tracing settings, and this was what I used as a base. So close, and yet, so far. It reminds me of every freshman project anyone ever did. It's really easy to be impressed that you can make perfect, crisp shapes in a fraction of a second, but eventually you need to move on and grow. For illustrations, it just looks horribly unprofessional. There's no reason to use vector art unless you're making billboards or printing something the size of a car. And even then, it's not for aesthetics, it's entirely for practicality- file size. I think people forget sometimes don't understand that there's a continental sized gap between what something looks like onscreen and in actual print- especially the higher res you go. It's completely unnecessary to illustrate something small, say, a book, in vector. Now, saying all this, I've seen some amazing vector art. Th