Design a day (56k unfriendly)

SpicyDuck · 26 Jun 2004 at 21:15

I'm not exactly sure how you guys are doing this.

I read how it was done in an earlier post but i don't quite understand as I'm using Paint Shop Pro 8.

My guess is that say i have a photo, i would create a layer of this and select a part of if and fill it with a colour and do the same for shadows, detail and depth etc.

In which case, i'm not sure why your calling them vectors.

Anyone care to explain. I love what I've seen so far, so would love to have a go.

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Phil.

Nimzicki · 26 Jun 2004 at 21:30

Nobody is claiming them to be true vectors, it is merely an imitation of what is widely accepted as a vector style, its just easier to call them vectors than "pseudo vectors" or "photoshop imitations of vector work"

dean - awesome, love the skin tones and overall presentation, loses something in the hair somewhat though imo.

SpicyDuck · 26 Jun 2004 at 23:42

lol at my first attempt.

Then again, this is my first time doing anything remotely artisitc in PSP, or any program for that matter.

Edit: How do you guys get edges so smooth?

Here is another one i did, which was/is a picture of me

Phil.

Fropome · 27 Jun 2004 at 01:12

ive not posted any of my stuff yet but i will..

and what i use is flash to make my proper vectors..
u have your photo in one layer..
then make a layer above that..
in the new layer i would use pens/line tools and draw outlines and details (tracing) the entire photo as detailed as i can but still keeping it simple

i would then.. use the fill tool and fill into the gaps of all these lines and then finally take away the lines.
this would leave me with the vector drawing

i think a lot of people here are using photoshop?
illustrator/freehand is quite good for it i hear

thats the way i do it (i dont know why i use flash, im just used to it)
will probably be different in other programs

Boz · 27 Jun 2004 at 12:19

nice dean, the face looks a bit wierd though. did u do all the paths yourself or did u get flash/illustrator to auto trace it?

overtone - ive never used psp but doesnt it have a vector lasso of some kind. it should let u select stuff using straight lines at various angles.

Dean3d · 27 Jun 2004 at 12:29

Originally posted by Boz
nice dean, the face looks a bit wierd though. did u do all the paths yourself or did u get flash/illustrator to auto trace it?

i did all the paths by myself, altho i had to re-do most of them because it's so hard to get them to look "natural"

any ideas how i can improve the hair and face??, because i want to get this as good as i can

thanks for the comments guys and keep this thread alive its really inspirational

SpicyDuck · 27 Jun 2004 at 12:51

Originally posted by Boz
nice dean, the face looks a bit wierd though. did u do all the paths yourself or did u get flash/illustrator to auto trace it?

overtone - ive never used psp but doesnt it have a vector lasso of some kind. it should let u select stuff using straight lines at various angles.

Not that i know of

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Oh yeh, with freehand selection it has a smoothing option which i can in/decrease i like.

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I'll be back with hopefully better results soon!

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Phil.

Dom- · 27 Jun 2004 at 13:39

Nimzicki do you mind walking me through creating faded objects,I cant seem to create a decent looking object fading into the background color,tried using feathering but I have no idea what to do with it!so if you could that would be fantastic thanks

rez2k · 28 Jun 2004 at 17:01

visit the master of vector based illustration

http://www.vectorize.de/index_old.html

Dean3d · 28 Jun 2004 at 19:50

WOW!!!

some very nice stuff there

Dom- · 30 Jun 2004 at 13:05

oi!you lazy lot!get working on some new pieces!
i don't know what you would class this as,just messing around last night with some custom pattern's and i got carried away!

i'm trying to find the thread i got the original pic off,so the original pic was not mine!

ashw · 30 Jun 2004 at 19:26

brush is ultimate once you have a tablet, it's useless on a mouse, but on a tablet it's amazing, you can twist the brush direction, resize on pressure or alter opacity, etc on pressure, really makes for interesting illustration.

does anyone use coreldraw?

didn't think so.

amit.t · 30 Jun 2004 at 22:02

Originally posted by rez2k
visit the master of vector based illustration
http://www.vectorize.de/index_old.html

I love that picture!

Boz · 4 Jul 2004 at 22:55

/edit - bandwidth conservation

bit of a sneak preview of a work in progress

/edit - 666 posts

- wheres a devil smiley when u need it :/

Tican · 4 Jul 2004 at 23:08

Looking good

Devil ?

i havent got the msn 1 too hand

Dom- · 4 Jul 2004 at 23:18

Boz that's superb,just saw your new deviant's amazing!
linky to mine

Boz · 6 Jul 2004 at 00:17

done some more stuff to it

not sure what else needs doing really - any ideas?

/edit apart from the face obviously, it still eludes me

Nimzicki · 6 Jul 2004 at 09:25

Very nice mate, love the colour scheme and accuracy, maybe a touch of texture to the soles of her shoes?

SpicyDuck · 6 Jul 2004 at 11:41

Boz, can you tell me exactly HOW you do that?

Everytime you post something i just get ****** off at myself lol.

Then again, I've only been using PSP8 for about 10 weeks, and not a lot, but thats not the point

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Phil.

Dom- · 6 Jul 2004 at 12:21

Boz,use the pen tool!
it is no harder then the polygon lasoo,just try it on the face see if its any easier,much better at curved lines
Overtone,get a 30-day trial of photoshop,see if you get along better with that then psp,then look on e-bay for either version 7 or 8,i've heard they're meant to be very similar,