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Published: 2004-02-13 06:27:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 6639; Favourites: 55; Downloads: 4515
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This is for everyone who ever accused me of being a trace bitmapper
and hopefully people will learn something about how to do vectors or something.
Freehand MX and Photoshop (for compiling)
(edit)
stock from sxc.hu the artist's username is Seer.
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Comments: 71
thanks for this tutorial, but you draw this with a wacom?or with the mouse?appreciate
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What's trace bitmapping? Vectoring is tracing is it not? Not saying you do, I'm just curious. Love your work.
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I love this, I thought I had commented but I obviously didn't. I happened to bang into your stuff again and realised you're a kiwi
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sweet as, send me a note and i'll do my best
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Sarah, I too am trying to learn how to make vectors work, and one of the things I have the most trouble with is shading and tones... it's driving me looney! *sigh* But, I wanted to say thanks ("Thanks!") for making this and putting it up... it's probably going to help me in the long run... if not, I'll just keep pulling my hair out!
-Shane
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nice work
~jaakobou
p.s. ... come see the club
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This is really great. Are there specifics as to why Macromedia over Illustrator? just outta curiosity.
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no not really anything specific, i just find it easier and more friendly to use i guess hehe
i'm all about the friendliness
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hehehehe... agreed... friendliness is key
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if you email me with your questions i'll do my best to answer them!
i'm just doing some school work thats due tomorrow (arrghh!) but i will get around to it soon
sarahisbomb@gmail.com
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woahhh.. hey do you have msn.. i want to talk about vecotoring
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woops i replied to the wrong post
see above!
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Its tough to defend when you have people out there using the filters and trace bitmaps claiming it as a vector.
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Well I can't say anything about trace bitmapping because I have been unable to gauge what it implies and if it is something which should have an inherently negative corollary attached to it or not, nice tutorial though...........
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I did my first vector in Photoshop.... rather scary looking but I liked it.
>.> <.< *steals your talent* Love your work!! SUPPLY AND DEMAND! AND I DEMAND MORE!
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I havent the faintest what trace bitmapping is, but your work is amazing and this has taught me alot about vectors.
Heiko
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I don't think it was too helpful for me - sorry - coz i'm too lame at outlining. I guess i need a tutorial on outlining 
You say you use Freehand. You like it? What can you say about illustrator?
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This is going to be real helpful to me......... I have tried doing similar things myself.... but my images turn out too weird... check out my gallery --- very very amateurish!
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I've never used Freehand. Infact, I have no idea what trace-bitmaping is. But, I do use Photoshop - no tricks or anything, I'm just way too used to the polygonal lasso tool (and layers, lots and lots of layers). But your tutorial makes me want to try out Freehand, it gives it a cool look, and looks like it takes less than three days (maybe I'm too tedious?). Nice work.
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havent read it but im sure going to, i hope i will be able to make like half of what u did
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Dam this is the most helpful vector tutorial I've found ... anywhere! Just a same its in response to some bung-holes stupid comments. If they knew anythang, they should know that Kiwis' are straight up mo-fo!! *Cue New Zealands National Song ... "Ten Guitars"!!!!
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This is really cool and helpful, esp. for a person like myself who knows abso-friggin-lutely nothing about vectorzing! Im gonna start doing some soon, like in 2 weeks or so in class, so I hope I can be up to the caliber that VBU and so on and so forth are up to! 
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wOW..! ..i think u really made your point here
i really wanna learn vector art, but i dont know shit about it. so thx very much for the "tuturial", i hope i can learn something with it
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Trace bitmap? You?! LE GASP!
Never. Nice tutorial though
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Great tutorial. I'd done a vector of this very guy, and a friend pointed me to this. You've done a good job. Mine looks rather soppy as compared to this, tehehe: [link] . Cheerio!
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Thanyou soooo much, I've been looking for a decent vector tutorial about for ages, I think I've found the WINNER!!!
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i always look at your work for inspiration on things i want to do. i love your work! i think everything you do is the best of vectors. im working on doing vector art and one day ill be as good as you. and the whole trace bitmaping thing... pfft... those losers are just jealouse because that cant come up with excellent peices.
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Thank you Sarah for this helpful guide...more and more vector seem like a fuN_K sort of art!
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Auto tracing are notouriously shit, you need about 30 seconds worth of experience to work that out.
Top job. I'd do the thumbs up icon if I knew the line for it. But I don't and I'm not about to go look!
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Sad i dont' even know what a bitmap tracer is. At any rate THANK YOU for the tutorial!
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rock out..great job..and boo on anyone whoever accused you of bitmap tracing !
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awesome work, and i hope this stops all the stereotypes of vectoring for the ignorant out there
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Great work on this love.
your work and example here is amazing!
cheers!
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great job!
do not worry that much about what people say. sometimes they just say it without thinking. no big deal. we all dwell on that
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