Vector art

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Cody C

Having been inspired by What Artdutra04 did with vector art in THIS 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.

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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 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.

[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?