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Published: 2006-02-12 03:16:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 261595; 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
you did an amazing job with the tutorial
one of the best and completest (ahemmmm 
there's a problem with the vexels page, the basics one is missing
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you're so amazing it hurts... ; ; wonderful wonderful wonderful job *_*
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well I have question, how I make an outline?
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If you download and use the hair brush I have made, just use that to draw where you wish the outline to be
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Hey man your AI tutorial is really kick ass!! I downloaded all of the pictures and including the hair brush already. This one is really help me much though I still have so many questions for you. I do vector using XaraX..and I alwasy piss off in making the shading..as XaraX doesn't have tools as powerfull as AI. I will note you some questions that still roaming in my barin right now, I hope that you will able to help me out. Thank you very much in advance.!!!
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wow awsome ... this actually thought me more than the ones i used to read
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Great work miss Kandi
I added this to the collection, thanx for sharing your knowledge
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danke very good work on it as well....
i sent you a note as well.
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Bejeebus, I feel like crying, you're so awesome haha. Do you have/know any tutorials on how to use the tools in Adobe Illustrator? I got it a while ago, but I've never understood how to work a lot of it.
Anyway, thanks for the very detailed stages! I love David Tennant heh, and you made him look great. I especially like how you did the jeans! It would've been nice to have seen more blue toned shades in the top (as we saw it compared to the reference) but the shadows are extremely accurate anyway! I think you did a fantastic job on the neck.
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I am thinking of adding more tutorials - like how to make brushes, how to do this and that with the tools... but I am just learning at the moment, only had illustrator for 3 weeks now.
With regards to the top - it's more of an artistic lisense here, I know it's a bit of an excuse, but I was doing the vector for myself for wallpaper, so it's all my preference. If you want to know how to add blue tones, then I would replace the lightest dark shade of grey for a more blue toned colour and that would integrate the blue tones in it
Thanks for the compliment on the neck... necks scare me in general, I am always worried that I do them wrong!
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Hehe thank you
I have replied to your note
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I just tried your brush very very nice
Make more
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heheh I only made it as Illustrator didn't have any brushes that I could use as a short cut.
I am thinking of making a scatter brush thing for facial hair, stubble and very short hair
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hey if you can make a brush that does short hair like for eye brows and beards and so on I think that would work
and many people would use it..
eye brows and beards suck to make!
let alone hair on the head hehe
sorry for the rant right now I am working on hair in a vector I making
yes feel for me thats right waaaaa 
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Sing it sister... seriously, I get what you mean!
I am just starting a new vector, a close up one, so I wont need the thought of brush... but it is something to consider.
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how long did this take you to make + the tut?
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About 40 hours I would say since Wednesday. I get pretty obsessive over these portraits and when I tend to start one, it dominants whatever I am doing... is that sad?
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not sad to me
been there done that and made a T shirt
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