instructables.com— Step by step tutorial to create groovy vector art. I thought I'd share this crash course in creating amazingly hot vector artwork.
Aug 13, 2006View in Crawl 4
"Though CorelDraw is easy, Illustrator is by far superior if you just take a little bit more time to learn it."More people use illustrator, but it is not far superior. Corel can anything illustrator can do. In fact it can do several thing illustrator can't..like multiple page layouts, control of indvidual font letters without having to convert to curves, ect..Coreldraw is a highly underrated program.
CorelDraw is awesome. You can do some extremely complex things with it. I've yet to try out Illustrator though... maybe I should write a review about my experience and post it to digg. :-PHere is a one of the vectors I did. It's got about skyscrapers, cars, people, etc though it is kind of cheesy. <a class="user" href="http://www.laazy.com/pictures/city.cdr/">http://www.laazy.com/pictures/city.cdr/</a>
"For starters, this -is- vector art."Do some research, you can not make a vector out of a raster image! In my job, I deal with vectors all the time, when I worked full time as a graphic designer for a sign shop, thats all we used, people like you would send me a raster image saved as an eps and call it a vector, this is totally wrong! If you do your research, you will see that a vector is a series of primatives derived from mathematical equations that represent the image. Your dealing with points and arcs, NOT pixels.Simple test, if you can use the eraser tool on it, it is NOT a vector.Or and for those of you willing to learn, you CAN create a vector out of a rastor, it just takes MANY hours of work, corel and flexi have a trace tool that works wonders and you can end up doing some really cool stuff with that.
I sooooo know your problem pondster. I've had it often as well, Here... plot this....Yay for that nice .jpg...Most of the times it was of too low quality to be able to use the trace tool decently, so most of the time it's just drawing lines with vector for hours and hours.
:( ah i should have submitted this myself :( After all i did post the intructable.. :(and all of ya bitching about the vector bit- he didn't have illustrator on him when he was doing the Tut. :P I'm sure you could figure out how to do it yourselves :)
isayx3Aug 13, 2006
"Though CorelDraw is easy, Illustrator is by far superior if you just take a little bit more time to learn it."More people use illustrator, but it is not far superior. Corel can anything illustrator can do. In fact it can do several thing illustrator can't..like multiple page layouts, control of indvidual font letters without having to convert to curves, ect..Coreldraw is a highly underrated program.
rosemAug 14, 2006
1) the end result looks terrible2) it's not vector art
Closed AccountAug 14, 2006
CorelDraw is awesome. You can do some extremely complex things with it. I've yet to try out Illustrator though... maybe I should write a review about my experience and post it to digg. :-PHere is a one of the vectors I did. It's got about skyscrapers, cars, people, etc though it is kind of cheesy. <a class="user" href="http://www.laazy.com/pictures/city.cdr/">http://www.laazy.com/pictures/city.cdr/</a>
visticAug 14, 2006
Completely unrelated to vector art, but check out <a class="user" href="http://www.pixelfreak.com/tutorial/">http://www.pixelfreak.com/tutorial/</a> for a good guide on doing some pixel art in MS Paint.
pondsterAug 14, 2006
"For starters, this -is- vector art."Do some research, you can not make a vector out of a raster image! In my job, I deal with vectors all the time, when I worked full time as a graphic designer for a sign shop, thats all we used, people like you would send me a raster image saved as an eps and call it a vector, this is totally wrong! If you do your research, you will see that a vector is a series of primatives derived from mathematical equations that represent the image. Your dealing with points and arcs, NOT pixels.Simple test, if you can use the eraser tool on it, it is NOT a vector.Or and for those of you willing to learn, you CAN create a vector out of a rastor, it just takes MANY hours of work, corel and flexi have a trace tool that works wonders and you can end up doing some really cool stuff with that.
podpersonAug 14, 2006
Adding to the negatives. Doing "vector" art in Photoshop is retarded.
pablodAug 14, 2006
f**kin' idiot. Anyone working *real* vector illustration in Flash is hopeless. That's not what Flash is for.
Closed AccountAug 14, 2006
Heh, that should have been >Serves me right for writing a shell script in one workspace and cruising Digg in the other.
llanowarAug 14, 2006
I sooooo know your problem pondster. I've had it often as well, Here... plot this....Yay for that nice .jpg...Most of the times it was of too low quality to be able to use the trace tool decently, so most of the time it's just drawing lines with vector for hours and hours.
darkmotionAug 20, 2006
:( ah i should have submitted this myself :( After all i did post the intructable.. :(and all of ya bitching about the vector bit- he didn't have illustrator on him when he was doing the Tut. :P I'm sure you could figure out how to do it yourselves :)
darkmotionAug 20, 2006
:) yeah bring up the dpi setting. He wrote this for the n00bs without illustrator :)
vectormanJun 17, 2008
Great resource. Cheers for hooking us up,Simon <a class="user" href="http://www.uberpiglet.com">http://www.uberpiglet.com</a>