Experimenting with digital colouring

This is an experiment I did to test out ways of transferring hand-drawn images into digital form. The image was imported into Illustrator and using the 'live trace' tool I was able to make a digitalized version of the image that could be manipulated as a vector graphic. I found this tool to be really useful and even without tweaking with the settings the result is sharp and stylized. I think that if I drew something and made sure the lines were sharp and solid (instead of sketchy) this tool could recreate a hand-drawn image really well.

The colour was added by a combination of filling white areas that had been converted into shapes and drawing shaded areas with the pen tool that were just filled and set behind the black outline.