Making bug wings look "right" in illustrator?

Hi, I am trying to illustrate a wasp for my design technology course and am required to use illustrator. I am unable to find a way to make bug wings look right. Any help would be appreciated, as I've tried multiple things but I am fairly inexperienced.
This is the wasp, and the wings just don't look proper.

Can't tell whether the sketch you're tracing includes them or not, but what's missing is the "cells."

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So after all that my main questions are, in 16:9 can I view it in the FCP viewer and canvas in its correct (anamorphically converted) aspect ratio and still export it without the black bars on all sides?
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It probably has more to do with the export settings rather than what viewer options have selected (I don't think that viewer settings affect your export).
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I am using compressor to export with aspect ration set to automatic 16:9. Then use DVDSP with the track set to 16:9 letterbox, it seems to export to DVD with the correct aspect ratio that way.
I am having trouble with the image strobing, looks like some kind of interlacing problem, but at least I have got it in the right aspect ratio.
Its typical video, solve one problem and it just creates another.
I am yet to find the absolute best workflow.
In response to Andy above, the original letterboxed footage probably did have something to do with the downconverting settings on the camera, as when I import without downconverting it does not letterbox. In the HDR-HC1 there is an option in the menu called "TV Type" with options of 4:3 or 16:9. I was reviewing my footage on a 4:3 television so I most likely had it set to 4:3 which created the letterboxing in the viewer when I then imported the footage.
Importing the footage in HDV solves the issue of aspect ratio, but creates a new problem with the image strobing.
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2004, the tables don't
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>
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STEVEN1A wrote:
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When I import video from my iphone to imovie it doesnt look right, it makes everyone look wider and shorter. Is there a way to fix this?

This is close. I did a bit more digging I have found a few more things. It appears that the input dialog is a read once on connect and then it never updates. I had my iPhone connected to my Mac when I did my convert from FILMiC Pro to my Camera Roll. Just on a whim, I dissconnected my iPhone with FCPX open and then connected it again. This time when I opened up the Import window the movie I converted showed up. It appears my issue may have simply been related to the specific series of operations that I happened to use at the time I was trying to perform an import to FCPX.
One last item of note. There is a movie in my Camera Roll that FCPX still does not see. This was a movie shot by my son-in-law of my grandaughter on his iPhone and then it was sent, via message, to my iPhone. Obviously it is a highly compressed video of unknown compression and frame rate. Regardless, FCPX does not see this video. I'm guessing it is not a .mov quicktime file but some other format specific to imessage video.
Thanks for the help Russ. It at least pointed me in the right direction. I understand why no one else could comment as I'm guessing no one else has had an issue. A very subtle "feature".

I need to rotate video 90 degrees and make it look right.

I'm editing a video for a friend - they shot some video vertically (they didn't realize it doesn't work for video as it does for still photos).
I tried rotating the picture but it's distorted (Stretched). Are there settings I can use to rotate picture 90 degrees without distortion (I realize there will be some kind of letterbox effect).
Thanks.

The distortion you're seeing is the difference of non-square pixels in height vs width. Even though you rotated the picture to correct the angle, the video will still look stretched until you compensate for the non-square pixels.
There's math involved if you want to get it exact, but I'd probably just select a top corner and, holding down the SHIFT key, distort the video until it looks right in the frame. You'll still be left with some pillar-boxing, but at least it'll look correct.
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