Hand drawn art

[namedos]

I've got a local kid who is an aspiring artist that wants to work with me on the artwork for my cab.  He does high quality work but it is all hand drawn.  Almost all of the posts on here talk about vectorizing existing work.

If soemone does hand drawn work can it just be scanned into the computer?  Can I later add vectorized characters to the picture?

I was planning on having the material printed by Mame Marquees and I know their requirements are that it be in 300dpi, in RGB mode and in a .psd, .ia, or .tif format.  Is this going to be difficult to accomplish with hand drawn stuff?

Any suggestions that will make this process easier?

[mahuti]

Yes.
Yes.
No.
No.

Seriously, scanning hand drawn art should be fine. Scan it at 300 DPI. Probably save as a tif.

[RayB]

If going for hand-drawn, always draw it as large as or larger than the intended use. Like a marquee for example... don't have him draw something small, which you then have to magnify up. It's always better to scale down from original then up.

Can we see some of his work? I find that sometimes people "color" their impressions of a person's art skills when they know the artist. An impartial critic (*ahem*me*ahem) could tell you if it's amateurish looking or not...
;-)

[mahuti]

That's not necessarily the case RayB. I often find that I can add to the aesthetics by scaling up... you just have to understand your medium. I often draw very tiny drawings with a grease pencil and scale them up by hunreds of percents, and they look fantastic.

Generally this could be true, especially if you are working with markers, or some other type of drawing utensil that leaves marks (colored pencils, crayons, etc) Pastel, watercolor and other soft mediums can greatly benefit from being scaled up.