Which means I can do this. 

I like to use Illustrator to colour as much of my work as possible and the fact that I was struggling to turn my line work into vectors suggested that once again I would go without submitting an image for the monthly challenge.

However, I just made the deadline and in the process learnt that I can happily take a picture of my line work -if I have to- and still be able to vectorise the image and colour within Illustrator...

...So here is Tiq Taq. A sort of 'Steampunk' styled robot, who over the century has undergone various upgrades -- resulting in a  droid of rather discombobulated parts.

...the main reason why I wasn't going to bother was because I don't yet have a scanner. So scanning in a clean and clear image was going to be tricky. However thanks to my girlfriend who insisted I use her digital camera to 'capture' this image (black ink on tracing paper) I was able to at least take a picture of this Robot. After opening it with Photoshop I was then able to clean up the image -- which really meant removing any 'greys'. Once saved I imported this to Illustrator as a tiff file, and using the Trace' option, I was finally able to vectorise the linework...

Pheeeuw!

This is my first drawing since moving to Australia. It's my initial sketch for last months challenge set at: conceptart.org which is ROBOTS. As my usual 'set-up' was not yet up and running I wasn't entirely sure I'd bother submitting anything this month....