Children's Book, Vector type help Options

[Datrooper]

Ok, well first off, I'll explain the project that needs to be done. I have to create a children's book, and then translate it to a foreign language, i'm going to be using spanish since i speak spanish as a second lang. Well, i've decided that my book is going to be about a tomato who is upset because he doesn't fit in, and is made fun of by his other vegtable friends for being different and abnormally shaped. Now, if it's a children's book, i should do vectors right? And then, what should i use for drawing the vectors? I have almost all of cs3, so that's not a problem. I'm fairly new to vectoring, are there any tutorials that will help me with shading and such? I hope that was understandable Thanks in advance!

[fixtatik]

lol, that looks like bob the tomato from veggie tales. if you can draw a vector, i'm sure you could make sketches on paper. what i'd suggest doing (if you have a scanner), is drawing the entire book by hand, in pencil. that will give you far more control over the characters.

then, scan them into photoshop or illustrator, and use the pen tool to trace them in detail. or, you could use live trace in illustrator to save the time of tracing, and just touch up parts that illustrator didn't get perfectly.