Recent content by Wardy

That one looks ok to me. I quite like CC Sign Language and Might Makes Right BB but these might be Adobe fonts. You might be better off on a digital art site, there's not many illustrators on here. ImagineFX is still around I think, but not sure if it has a forum.

Looks like a mixture of hand-drawn and digital elements with some photo manipulation.

You could try an image search but it just looks like a standard stock illustration to me. You would probably have to add your own names of course. Those children's hands look a bit small to me!

Well that's not an easy task and no-one should be doing that for free. Can I suggest you go back to whatever Ai app you got it from and ask it to a better job, it's pretty awful. That reference shot is not a vol au vent, not in this country anyway.

Why the grey, grungy background?! Both the logos (why two logos?) are awful - outlines and drop shadows are very last century.

I'm sure there's probably a better way. Try YouTube - 'How to animate a drawing in sequence' or something.

I would probably try and do it in Photoshop or similar, just a matter of finding the right brush or pencil. Would be a lot quicker.

Yes, you will definitely need to redraw it as a sketch, it's in a totally different style to the first one. It doesn't look like a vector to me, and so won't be editable. There must be a few ways to animate it, depending on what software you have at your disposal, but I can't help you there.

I assume therefore that Inkscape is fairly limited in what it can do. You just need to get the right tools for the job. :)

Yes, that's been re-drawn in some kind of vector app. It's not a big job at all but if she did that for free you're very lucky.

I think you'd have to show us a full-size, before and after image to be able to see what was done.

Yes, been there, done that. I've wasted far too much time in the past trying to think of something clever or different for myself. Everyone loves doing logos, I guess it's because we want to show off what we do and because designers are perfectionists, but when it comes down to it we don't need...

Yes, if we're talking stock images that's even more complicated. You can never be sure how much that same image has been used before or after you buy it. Always best to go bespoke and commission an illustrator - more expensive initially but safer and potentially more cost-effective further down...

The going rate used to be around an extra 50% of the original cost I think to hand over copyright but if it was a charity they might consider reducing this. It depends on the individual and what is involved I guess, there are no set rules about these things. I don't usually charge extra to hand...

I'm sure there was one or two of these available quite recently, check the Classifieds section.