Piro In Illustrator..

These were my first steps into illustrator and using the pen tool 

and the live paint bucket. The top left image is using just the pen 

tool from a sketch I made. I scanned the sketch in and used the pen 

tool to go around the outside to create a smooth shape. This is much 

better than photoshop as the lines are pure and smooth. 

The other images are some colours and effects I added using the 'live 

paint bucket' tool. Using live paint bucket allows you too fill colour 

in different parts of your image. I used the bucket tool to fill colour 

the face, hair, glasses and bandana. The effects (most notably in the hair)

are done by using the 'mesh' tool. This creates a gradient and adds another 

colour to the block colour. The best way to do this is find a lighter colour 

to add subtle tones. This wouldn't work for the hair as it is many different 

colours, so I used a yellow and it made this explosion of yellow which 

was awesome! The bottom left image is the standard colours I use for Piro,

and (so far) out of these 3 this is my favourite. The bottom right is a 

colour variation I tried out, which on reflection was not as good as the 

original theme

Due to these colours being very bright, and the world he lives in being so

bleak, next time I am going to use darker colours to symbolise this.