FFA233 (DIGITAL INK AND PAINT)-Week 2- Vector Tracing (OF DOOM)

I have to stress on how difficult this assignment is. Mainly because I am a beginner. One needs to have patience, and the will to stay alive in doing this task. Never have I ever thought that tracing can be this hard because it is done using Adobe Illustrator. For me, it is time-consuming because I couldn't adjust with the interface as it is kind of a new program for me (I have the software for a long time but never really used it before).

So here we have this Monkey (of eternal suffering);

Our task was to trace this monkey by using Illustrator and we are restricted from duplicating the lines directly. We have to trace one line, one part at a time. After few days, this is the result;

Left; Original   Right; My version

I am pretty sure it's not 100% similar, there are few lines with colors appearing on my work. I don't know how to erase or recolor the lines. ;(

I had to do and redo quite a few times especially the head part.

As for my progress, I did it in a time-lapse form. Apart from showing how I truly feel in doing this task, I wanted to test my skills in video editing. Needless to say, I still don't know what I am doing hahahaha. It took me days to figure out everything and I am not gonna lie, some high screeching and "tears" were shed.