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Here is a practice work, I took the Public Domain image from Betrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit " and redrew it using Inkscape.The idea was to try and develop the tequniques required to produce the same kind of water colour style drawing, but using pure vector images.
For those confused about what I mean. Vector images are images made up of mathematically perfect lines, they describe how the image should be drawn and programs like Inkscape and Illustrator allow you to intuitively draw with them. The problem comes from style, vector is very good at cartoon styles like the Simpsons or Flash vectors like MLP:FiM, but for a more rough styles like pencils and water colours vector requires a lot more work.
What do you think?
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Comments: 13
Golden-Ribbon [2012-10-16 22:37:51 +0000 UTC]
O wow you really hit this one on its head Doctormo. An amazing piece. I hope I reach there soon.
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doctormo In reply to Golden-Ribbon [2012-10-17 00:34:37 +0000 UTC]
Hey GR, Oh I'm sure with practice, mostly I practised by tracing existing images to get a sense of how they're achieving the pictures.
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vonholdt [2012-10-13 02:21:41 +0000 UTC]
nicely done sir! I find the hardest part about using blurred vector shapes is how they "overflow" outside of the line work. you've done a splendid job dealing with that!
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doctormo In reply to vonholdt [2012-10-13 02:39:42 +0000 UTC]
I agree, the lines help with that. The other option is to use a clipping mask on your colours. I didn't use one here, but for serious work it can nail those hard edge problems when you stick all your finished colours of any particular layer into a clip of the lines it's applying to.
Make sense?
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vonholdt In reply to doctormo [2012-10-13 13:18:34 +0000 UTC]
sound like it functions the same as a layer mask in gimp, i will definitely give it shot. thanks!
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Agetian [2012-10-10 17:01:12 +0000 UTC]
Hehe really awesome!! Great job here, my friend, I like how this pic came out! I think that vectors, when applied properly, can both make the picture smoother and keep the realism/avoid mathematicization (lol that's not a real word, but... you know what I mean, right?) Keep up the great work!
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doctormo In reply to Agetian [2012-10-10 17:27:45 +0000 UTC]
The word you're after is 'blandisation'
Thanks for the !
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Agetian In reply to doctormo [2012-10-10 19:16:41 +0000 UTC]
No problem, and yeah, true!
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doctormo In reply to MegLyman [2012-10-10 04:09:17 +0000 UTC]
Thanks Meg, I'm hoping to do something special tomorrow.
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