Light and fluffy clouds are easy to create in Illustrator and I'll show you one way to create them. This tutorial introduces you to a few of the Pathfinder filters and will familiarize you with the Drop Shadow stylize effect in Illustrator 9.
Pixel Perfect Tracing Adobe Illustrator / Drawing
In this tutorial, I will be taking you through the actual Steps that were used to convert one of these hand-drawn cartoons into colorized vector art. I will discuss Placing the cleaned-up scan into Illustrator, using Live Trace Presets and Options, converting the Tracing object into a Live Paint Group, using Gap Detection, Expanding the Paint Group into vector, and adding color to finish up the cartoon.