Adobe Illustrator CS6

I have downloaded a trial of Adobe Illustrator CS6 and attempted to learn a bit more after a fairly unsuccessful attempt in an earlier project.

I took a photo of a bird from Google to attempt to use different tools such as the pen tool, different strokes & fills, swatches, copying an image, the brush tool, scale, rotate and more.

Here are the results....  

This is the fully completed bird with colour.

 I copied the whole grouped image to another file and played around with it to get a silhouette image of it and filled it blue using the fill tool.

This is the outline of the image. I think its interesting as it shows all the overlapping of the lines and the different stroke weights I've used.

 

I usually use Photoshop to develop an image but I think Illustrator has a better end result as it doesn't pixelate the image. When developing a design from your own drawing it is easier to fill an area with colour on Illustrator than Photoshop.