Would you trace as is or clean up

Clean up. Tracing as is would make a lot of "wobblies"

 

Clean up.

 

I end of "recreating" something like this.

 

Is that a duck flying off holding a rat by the tail in its beak?
I'd redraw it.

 

I would clean it up.

Why are you asking?
Did the customer want an EXACT trace with the pixelation and unhappy with it being cleaned up?

 

Redraw

 

Clean up

 

ink blots? I must warn you, they all look like genitalia to me

 

Maybe it is a scanned drawing by someone they know ??

 

I wouldn't have cleaned it up. It looks like it was originally meant to have wobbly lines.

 

So you lost customers for asking to many questions and now you ask us a question to clean it up or trace it when you already had the answer!

 

I remember as a kid and a teacher telling us that no question is bad if you do not know the answer. So in your case with customers, your questions lead you to the answers.
Now that I know you were trying to teach us something, point taken.

 

I have learned to keep my mouth shut with customer art, its amazing what they can be proud of...perhaps one of their kids designed in 7th grade or something

 

That poor plotter is going to have a long day with that mess

 

You are asking too many questions b/c they arent giving you the correct information to start with!

Ive used you dozens of times and its a super simple process.....dont sweat the idiots.