Kiddie artwork using Adobe Illustrator
Once a week my daughter Gabriella is given a journal art schoolwork based on a situation that is assigned by her teacher. She needs to write down the answer to the question and also make an illustration that would go with it. When I checked her journal last week I saw an entry for the question "How do you show your friends you care about them?" She answered "by giving a hug" along with a cute drawing of herself together with her friend at the park. This gave me an idea to come up with a digital illustration (using Adobe Illustrator) for this artwork. Here's the before and after artwork side by side.
Artworks
How do you show your friends you care about them?
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To produce this artwork I had to think about the concept, create characters, create a scene and a lot of editing. Making digital vector artwork looks a little bit complicated but they're really not, they are composed of shapes, lines and paths all arranged in different layers to create the final composition.
Here are also a few more of her journal work. I think they are conceptualized and drawn pretty well.
Who is your favorite character from the story "How the leopard got his spots"? Why?
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Would you rather be an explorer or researcher? Why?
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What are you going to do this weekend?
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It is great to see her be really interested in creative work. She model things around her and solve problems in different ways. I plan to teach her on how to use these tools so that one day she'll be able to confidently create digital artworks and show it to her friends and classmates.