Need artwork advice from any graphic designer people please.

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OK to cut a long sotry short, a lady at the place I volunteer has hand drawn an image that she wants to have made into postcards, bookmarks, fridge magnets etc. She wants to be able to send suppliers the image as finished artwork. So what is the process of getting a hand drawn image as finished artwork? And do printers what PDF or JPEG these days?

I have one designer on the case, but he can't seem to answer me this simple question as he said they hand drawn image can't exactly be recreated and I have no idea what he means and he sounds short and pissed off with it on the phone!!!!

Is there an idiots guide to the artwork design process anywhere?

To get a decent result in print the hand-drawn artwork needs to be redrawn, preferably using software like Adobe Illustrator which will produce a high quality file that can be scaled to any size and used on anything from a business card to a billboard. That's the ideal way to do it but if you just need it to appear on postcards etc on a white background then scanning it at high resolution should be fine - it can then be imported into the artwork and the whole thing saved as a PDF which is what most printers prefer these days.

Exactly what Wanna said! :)

Cheers ladies!

Also agree with what wanna said, with the addition that your designer is a bit thick as it is easy enough to scan the image and trace it in Illustrator to recreate what has been drawn if you do need a better quality image for various printing mediums.

I do it all the time!

scan it, put it into irfanview, tidy it up save as pdf
worked fine for the stuff DD designed for DH's promo materials

Depends if it has detail that you want to preserve (if it were drawn in a sketchy way for eg) you would just scan it. If it is a simple outline of a shape you might re draw it in illustrator but it really does depend on the look you are going for.

Many formats are ok, tiff, pdf, jpeg if its large enough.