Illustrating a bunny

I enjoy being able to practice art through different mediums, including digital. It’s fun to take a sketch and move it from an idea to a digital illustration A while back, I created a bunny illustration.
This is the final result.

I’m posting this because I thought it would be interesting to document the stages of this bunny. First, I drew a fast and rough sketch of the shape.

I immediately knew I wanted this bunny to have some attitude and tribal-esque lines. So with tracing paper I kept the shape and re-drew the bunny to get the below image, which is pretty close to the final version.

Then I scanned it into the computer and imported it into Illustrator and did a live trace. This gives me a baseline to work with. The lines can be rough, and not where I want them to be…but from there I spend time moving the lines to get what I want. I’m not particularly fast at it yet. The same process happens with some of the logos I create, but I haven’t done much as complex as this bunny for any logo. So doing things like this are good practice.

I wanted to post the rough stage after the live trace, but I seem to have lost those files…