Vector art

[Cody Carey]

Having been inspired by What Artdutra04 did with vector art in THIS (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=50082)thread, I decided to try a little on my own... How does this look? Any comments/suggestions are welcome, as I can't improve if no one critiques me.

Also, if you have any vector art that you've done, I'd love to see it. :)


http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/1907/cartooncodycopyyb7.jpg

[Dan Petrovic]

is there some special program specifically used to do it, or could I do it on photoshop or something?

[Greg Marra]

Adobe Illustrator is the Adobe suite app usually used for vector graphics, whereas I believe the gap is filled on the Macromedia side with Fireworks.

Photoshop, however, features a pen tool just like Illustrator, so you can do vector graphics there as well.

This page (http://www.design-works.com/resources/vector_and_raster_graphics.htm) does an excellent job explaining the difference between vector graphics and "regular", or raster, graphics.

[Dan Petrovic]

okay, thanks

..that was a really quick reply :P

[Cody Carey]

For this one, I used Photoshop.

[SamC]

Are their any freeware programs for vector art making?

[Cody Carey]

A quick search revealed this page, http://www.programurl.com/software/vector-art.htm , but you'll have to take a look... because it's almost bed-time :D

[Chris Marra]

IIRC, GIMP supports vector art creation. However, one of the best freeware vector software packages is Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/), which although its much more technical and less intuitive than Illustrator or Fireworks, is still pretty nice to use.

[artdutra04]

Having been inspired by What Artdutra04 did with vector art in THIS (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=50082)thread, I decided to try a little on my own... How does this look? Any comments/suggestions are welcome, as I can't improve if no one critiques me.

Also, if you have any vector art that you've done, I'd love to see it. :)

[Picture removed to save Quote space]If I could make a suggestion, I would say use less black lines to highlight/define the different areas. Instead, just let different colors do the defining for you. If if you really want the darkened lines, use a darker version of the fill color of a piece. Such as on the computer, maybe use a dark violet instead of black lines around the purple areas.

I use Macromedia Fireworks MX for all my vector art, such as many of those great diagrams (http://www.team228.org/images/holonomic-versus-mecanum.png) that I often post in threads. I also use Fireworks whenever I have to "prototype" ideas for designing web pages. Using a combination of vector graphics and raster images, I can usually pretty quickly "sketch up" ideas to see how they will look. After that is done, then I'll do all the XHTML/CSS/JS/PHP/MySQL coding in Dreamweaver.

For the record, Adobe now owns Macromedia, and it looks like Fireworks lost to Illustrator in the acquisition.


I guess I was aptly named Art. It would be quite ironic otherwise if I was horrible at art. :yikes:

[DCA Fan]

http://lemontea.deviantart.com has a great tutorial on vector art that I would recommend looking at.

http://unknowninspiration.deviantart.com has my vector artwork

As for your piece up there, it's good, but I don't like the outlines on the nose. I'd work on practicing shading in vectors.

[Nica F.]

i have the latest version of Illustrator and i took a graphic design class where i learned basics but i really dont know how to do much, are there any other good tutorials?

[shawger]

IIRC, GIMP supports vector art creation. However, one of the best freeware vector software packages is Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/), which although its much more technical and less intuitive than Illustrator or Fireworks, is still pretty nice to use.

Inkscape is not freeware. It is open source. There is a big difference.

And I don't believe the GIMP supports vector images.