In India, its result time, as 10th and 12th standard’s results are being declared. Congratulations!! to all the students. Above illustration I just finished in illustrator, dedicated to these students & ‘School Chale Hum’ song—its inspirational & nostalgic to me 
reminds me the days when I used to go school.
About the song:
192 million children between 6-14 years of age across 1.1 million places in India are not going to school. This film for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Universilisation of Elementary Education) addresses the needs of these children. The film catches the moment when children all across India from Kashmir to Kerala wake up in the morning and run to go to school.
To Download this illustration in high resolution click here. See the sketch here:
I am a big fan of illustrations, especially vector illustrations. Whenever, there is nothing much to do, I try to horn my skills with illustrations. There are masters and here is a newbie—I know CorelDraw well enough but there are some technical problem associated with the software, don’t know whether you also have faced same problems like: Software gets crashed while working with big sized files (that’s why it has default ‘Auto Backup’), Pen tool is quite hard to handle.
However, this could be one side story of coin, its also has some good features to proud of: Gradient Tool is much better then Adobe Illustrator, Its works faster then Illustrator. But when it comes to safety of your file, all good points get vanished. Looking at this I am trying to switch over to Illustrator.
Although, Illustrator is almost like Photoshop, one has to understand the basic differences between these two softwares, especially when he comes from a Corel background. So Guys, today I am sharing this manual trace of a known bollywood personality: Amitabh Bachchan.
What I learned by tracing: The pen tool, How to handle the layers, Clipping path, Advanced rotation. Below are the steps:
