vector art concepts.

[Big Frank]

Here's one i did with 137 shapes

I love it, absolutely love it. Bravo

[Big Frank]

But Big Frank, she is outstanding. I especially like the background and her hair.

I think I felt tired and jaded after all that work because what I wanted to achieve I couldn't. That feeling has stayed with me and I have no will to finish or redo the project (plus I find as I get older I am simply getting busier!). I wanted it to look more "real" that what I ended up with.

Hi Big Frank,
Lovely piece of work!!
On the humoroous side it must have been done awhile ago I can see the gray hair starting to show.
Jim

She uses a lot of lifting cream but forgot to colour her hair

I really like the picture Big Frank.. Are there any good tutorials on how to do work like this? i want to do a graphic like this of my children.

I did these at the time, I hope they are still of some use:
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showpost...8&postcount=18
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showpost...5&postcount=14

[Burpee]

CaseyDave, great example and well done!

[Mike Bailey]

i came across a problem in the vectoring. on the mantis, the mantis has all sorts of colors and textures for his skin, plus there's all sorts of really detailed parts to the face. all sorts of unique and interesting shapes. there no way to create all that detailled shapes by just using fills, and transparency effects

I would post work the image in Photoshop or Painter or some other painterly type of application.

[MarkMyWords]

Excellent image Frank, interesting techniques too, thanks for the link.

I tried to create a "painterly" illustration entirely in Xtreme once, but it was taking so long that I'm ashamed to say I gave up before I finished. The results, as far as I got were great, but the time involved was just prohibitive for paying work.

I keep taking a look at the piece and thinking that I should take the time to work out some faster and more efficient techniques, but I haven't worked up a big enough head of steam to tackle it again yet.

[wizard509]

Frank, that is fantastic. I especially like her hair.
And here I have been trying to draw an eye, but you have an entire portrait.
Maybe one day I'll be able to do something like that.

[Albacore]

Come on folks back onto the thread topic. Like Bill was trying to show you and Frank if you were copying from a picture you would place and lock it to its own layer. From that locked layer you would build up your vector drawing using layers. On some of the top most layers you would start using transparencies with feathering to gain the texture that you require. Please remember that it is art and not a photo that you are producing so sometimes less is far better than more to get the information across to a viewer.