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Published: 2006-02-12 03:16:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 261592; Favourites: 785; Downloads: 6705
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I have just completed a vector of David Tennant. Now I thought I would do it as a WIP but then I thought, well why not example what I am doing as I am going along and share with people what I do... like a tutorial
Instead of putting it all in one image and it being a bitch to download, I am linking all the pages from my scraps... just click the section you wish to read.
I would however request one thing... if you are wanting to favourite it, please favourite this page, so others know there are other sections involved and not just that one section you have favourited... ya get me?
So the list is as follows:
Base layers and a kinda introduction : [link]
The hand: [link]
The neck: [link]
The top: [link]
The jeans: [link]
Face shading: [link]
Facial hair: [link]
Lips: [link]
Hair : [link] - the brush I used can be downloaded here >>> [link]
The eyes: [link]
Finishing touches and correcting "mistakes" : [link]
If you are interested, I have 3 other tutorials which are for vexelling... however the technics used can be applied to vector art.
Basics: [link] Lips: [link] Eyes: [link]
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask, I will do my best to help answer them
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Comments: 176
One question, with skin tones do you generally "blend" between shapes? Also, I saw that you are able to edit the blend to include banding in the bead necklace, but is there a way to noise or something to get that gritty, more brush like texture using the blend function?
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There is in a way... if you create a gradient with an elipse/radial gradient... and then use the layer opacity mode as dissolve and lower it... it will give a noise effect.
I hope that helps
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SWEET! I wouldn't have even thought about that at all. Thanks so much.
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Oo, nice. I just got Illustrator, so It should come in handy.
......are you a Doctor Who fan too?
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I'm a David Tennant fan more than a Doctor Who fan... it's a cracking show
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What do you mean by cracking?
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I've had this tutorial favorited forever just waiting till I got Illustrator. Today, I finally got it in my grubby paws and was so excited to give this a whirl.
Holy Toledo this is tedious and difficult. Can you point me in the direction of any good beginner's tuts?
This is an extremely fabulous tut though - I can't wait to come back to it after I've learned how to actually draw the paths.
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What are you using as a basis for your image? Other tutorials emphasize tracing photos. I hope you're at least working from your own drawings or something you did yourself.
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great tutorial! too bad i don't have illustrator. none the less, i'll try making a vector on my photoshop using this. thank you!
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OMG, could anything make me try to work on vectors more than David?
I've been trying vectors for a bit, I'm very thankful for the tutorials. I'm currently using Paint Shop Pro XI. I have a really stupid question though, what's the difference between vextors and vexels?
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You should totally put all of the files in a zip folder and then we can just download the whole thing
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haha I'm doing a vector of david tennant too (yay doctor who) and I was going to do a WIP but then decided to do a tutorial too haha great minds think alike
however, yours is waaay better quality than mine. It's so hard to do the face when its so small in the picture >.<
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thanks for this tutorial! more power!
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Hey,can I know where you downloaded the Adobe illustrator CS ?
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Hey,can I know where you downloaded the Adobe illustrator CS ?
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thank you so much...
thanx..thanx..thanx...
i really want to learn diz
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You are a God send for making this! Its been such a big help to me! ^.^
Thanks to you and this helpful tutrorial of yours, I can now say, I can semi-vector things! YAY! =3 Now, I just need to practice, practice, practice!
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Brilliant tutorial. I like that you've shown so many stages of the process that others skip over and take as read. Picking apart the process really helps get an idea of how much work is involved, whereas other tuts just assume you can imagine all the in-betweens.
Thanks for this.
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David Tennant ^_^ <3 nice vector art
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This is such a great tutorial. Definately gonna favorite this so I can refer to it later. Thanksfor taking the time to make it.
Tennant looks hot in this btw.
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amazing tutorial.. thanks a bunch.. keep up the cool work
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Muy buen trabajo! tanto por la imagen, como por el tutorial! me encantaron
Me harias un favor, pasando una foto a vectores? es que se lo quiero dar a mi novia como regalo de mes.
Si me puedes ayudar te lo agradeceria!
desde ya muchas gracias y un abrazo!
muy buenos trabajos
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Thx a lot for showing us how you work and for helping people as dumb as me to do some decent stuff.
Salute!
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great guide. i'm just getting my hands on vector portraits.. thanks a bunch
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wow, one of my favourite actors! <3 this is brilliant
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Thank you for making this! 
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sir could you check my works and have some.....will comment for my weaknesses im not a professional one but it is my hobby since my younger age
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Thank you. I doubt you'll end up seeing this but thanks for the help anyway.
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This is brilliant, exactly what I needed.
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very nice. just got Illustrator, and had no idea how to vector with it, but reading and using this tutorial, its helped me alot. thanks.
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wow iv been looking for a tut like this forever!!!! great thanks
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