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Published: 2005-10-14 05:45:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 21687; Favourites: 548; Downloads: 9641
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This is the next installment of my Ultimate Vector Tutorial series. In this installment we will use the techniques learned in parts 1 + 2 and see how they can be applied to create a vector image.The lineart I used can be found here: [link]
Parts One and Two of the tutorial can be found here: [link]
Enjoy! And please, if you have any questions or comments or requests for future tutorials let me know. I love these things ^^
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Nice! Made the front page again eh?
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Guess so! Got home from work and I was like..."wow. This had 5 faves when I went to work, lol!"
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Well, its an excellent tutorial, may i have your babies now?
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You... hmm... you know about the "Live Trace" option, right? ...that automatically does this for you, provided your image is already fairly defined? Because with an image as clean as the one you use here, I'd imagine just the default LT would do the whole thing very nicely...
Nice tutorial, nonetheless. Very informative! ^_^b
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Oops, PS, by "this" I just mean the line art. The coloring thing is te de, obviously.... and you do it so well!
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Haha, yeah. I think that live trace is great (especially when I'm in a hurry and don't have time to waste!) but more often than not I just prefer to vector the lines directly...plus, I always had to do that anyway with CS and Illustrator 10 so I'm used to it! CS2 users are spoilt, lol!
It's still a very good thing to know how to do though, I think...I do a lot of freehand vectors (without an image to trace) so knowing how the lines work definitely helps!
Thanks!
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Agreed. ^_^ I'll have to learn to wean myself off live trace now.... XD
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In the next tutorial, can you mention gradients? I know how to do them on CS2, which is the one I have at school, but at home I have version 10, and it only lets me do black and white gradients, and its driving me totally crazy. Maybe you can clear it up a bit? Thanks very much. Great tutorial, by the way. I can't wait for the next one. Also part one and two were very good, I was satisfied.
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Actually, I was debating whether to do gradients next or the pathfinder next, and I think that I'll do gradients! Luckily I have a copy of Illustrator 10 on my other computer, so I can check back and forth for reference!
My weekends are usually busier than my weekdays, so I don't know how long it'll take me to make (I need a good 5-7 hours free per tutorial) but it should be up soon!
Thanks for the nice comments!
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Excellent. Faved it, becasue I liked it, and for reference.
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We're starting vectors at university this year, and I was kind of worried about how hard it would be.
But this tutorial kinda makes it look less daunting! It's is going to help me a lot, thankyou so much!
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You're welcome so much! I am glad to help!
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Wow, that's really cool. I'm going to have to give that a shot sometime, doesn't look as hard as I imagined it would be. <3
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It's a little scary at first, but don't worry, you'll be able to handle it! ^^
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This is very helpful! xD I was so lost at how illustrator works but now I'm not as afraid... : )
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this, and your part 1/2 tutorials are really helpful, even though I already know that basics!! You made them easy to read and understand, which are good qualities in tutorial-makers, or anyone else for that matter. Great job!
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Thanks so much! I hope to get into more difficult techniques and skills later, but first, baby-steps...baby-steps...
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Thanks so much, this is very helpful!!
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interesting, now that ive stumbled upon the pen tool on my own someone comes out with a tutorial... too little too late.. although it explains a lot.. lol
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Haha, better late than never I suppose!
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too true, i needed to find out about it on my own anyways.. i knew about the tool, just didnt really know how to use it. then i just messed with it one day, and viole... im not so stupid lol
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Wuaahhhh, no one liked my vector tutorial. Oh well. At least someone's getting their vector skillz out there for people to learn. I am an Illustrator fiend. I just wish I was better at conveying how I do things. Nice work! I wish more people would find out the glory of vector.
PS: Someone needs to ask DA to make an actual resources area for vector stuff. It's really odd that there's nothing for it. PETITION TIME!
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I am checking out your tutorial as we speak!
Yeah, a resources area for vector tutorials would be GREAT....it's hard to pick them out of all the "miscellaneous" tutorials...and usually people just submit them to "Photoshop" tutorials!
I'll head over to the suggestions forum and drop them a line...and maybe note some admins
It is always good to find another Illustrator fiend ^_^
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Sweeeet, if you give me the link to your thread I'll go and rave as well. Vector folks need support, there's so few of us, and the recognition is very hard to get. It's really cool to meet another person who uses the program similarly to how I do 
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wow that's so helpful! thx you for making every new artist life a little bit easier. >^^<
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OH SNAP....thank you mastah Thompson!
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Whee! Now I can ink and colour my friend's drawing in Illustrator! Cos Flash just doesn't cut it nowadays... My poor BABY! ::hugs computor::
But yay! You uploaded another one!!! I saw your comment and I was like 'oh yeah!' then I saw what it was about and I was like 'OH YEAH!' I think I almost woke up my dad. Oops.
Another fav for the manifiquesitexpealladosious (that should be a shirt) minimonster. I need to check the rest of your gallery out!
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I'm glad that you like it ^^
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how much different is cs2 from cs?
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Some tools are different - there is a live trace tool and a paintbucket tool in CS2, although I don't really use them. There are a few other things too, but so far I have only seen minor minor differences - mostly stuff with filters and stuff which I rarely use. So, as far as I know, not much difference.
It might be worthwhile checking out the Adobe website - maybe they have a list of all the updated features? *should have thought of it before*
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I mean tto say that the paintbucket works differently in CS than in CS2. Sorry for the confusion.
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