Birmingham Skyline

I looked into breaking down the skyline of Birmingham into individual landmarks/buildings rather than 1 object.

I decided to draw these into Illustrator so that they could be enlarged to any size suitable & in the hope that I'd be able to use the laser cutter for a sleek smart finish (as small shadow puppets they need to have perfect crisp edges to come through the screen with best results, rather than being hand-cut.)  

For some landmarks I imported the picture into illustrator and drew around the basic shape - for others I just copied the shape as close as possible.  Unfortunately the 'trace' tool in Illustrator was not suitable - the images were too detailed & intricate.

These are my first testers:

Council House, The Bull, The Birmingham Wheel (hand cut)

Illustrator drawing - Bt Tower

Illustrator drawing - Birmingham Wheel

Illustrator drawing - Selfridges