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Help a tripfag out Kebinu !GhiZeo/aQQ
These are images I'm considering vector tracing. All I need to know is if someone else did them already or not so I don't waste my time.
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>> Anonymous
do vectors of Kirie from Girls Bravo and you shall be receiving internets en masse
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And finally the one I started working on today.
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Here's one I finished yesterday, from an image that was posted here in the (short) Abenobashi thread on Saturday. Spent about 18-19 hours total on it over two days, I would guess, mostly because it's the first one I've ever completed and because I'm an insane perfectionist.
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>>333462
Either of these would be total win, and i know they havent been done before.
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>>333477
Are you joking? Something like that shouldn't take more than an hour or two, tops. Just trace the lines and slap on the cel shading. Heck, you didn't even fix the lineweight or anything.
>> Anonymous !4X8vLLNDE2
oh hai
>> Anonymous
its actually not bad, smoothed to hell which is more than i can say for anything iv ever done
>> Anonymous
>>333454
I'm working on this one..
however I'm working on many other things and it'll probably take me a while to get round to finishing it.
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this is as far as I've got.
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>>334298
The thumbnail makes it look like... you didn't get very far.
>> Anonymous
>>334343
indeed! I thought the upload screwed up.
No idea why it does that, but oh well.
>> Anonymous
>>334351

A PNG generated from a vector has a transparent background which is lost when making the thumbnail, and it becomes black.

What program do you use to vector, by the way?
>> Anonymous
>>334381
that particular one was done with adobe illustrator. I also use inkscape.
>> Kebinu !GhiZeo/aQQ
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>>334009

I'm entirely self-taught, never been educated in the software at all, and basically learned as I went along. All I had to go on for guidance was what I remembered from some tutorials I read LONG ago.

I didn't fix the line weight because it was based on a screenshot and the lines were all equal weight. If it was artwork that had varying line thicknesses I would have used shapes instead of paths. I did use shapes for the lingerie and the eyes because it was easier for me to get the shapes I wanted that way. Also I devoted a lot of extra time to create extra layers so I could remove and modify things in the picture at a later point if I wanted (the pipe for example) or change the colors around quickly so there was a lot of extra stuff that didn't absolutely have to be done built into it. Things go faster now that I know what I'm doing. Also like I said I've sometimes gone back and revised a single segment 20-30 times to make sure it lines up pixel-perfect, because I hate even minor discrepancies when the female body is involved.

Also I often stop during my work to read 4chan and do other things so I'm not working on it nonstop.

I use Photoshop 7.0 btw.

Here's what I've got of my work in progress.
>> Anonymous
>>334454
ooh that one's looking pretty good so far!
Keep it up!
>> Anonymous
>>334454
ok total noob questions, but do you just use the pen tool? how are vectors defined? and like, how do they "work"?
>> Kebinu !GhiZeo/aQQ
>>334462

A vector is basically anything that's defined by a path or a shape instead of a bitmap. That means you can resize it up to whatever recockulous resolution without any degradation in picture quality because the paths and shapes stay the same relative to each other, unlike with a bitmap which gets blurrier and blurrier the bigger you make it as the pixels get spread out.

As for how you use the pen tool, you basically use it to draw curves smoothly by setting anchor points and then manipulating them with the mouse. Unlike the pencil and brush, anything you draw with the pen becomes a vector and you can choose whether you want to draw shapes or paths. If you draw paths, you basically set anchor points along the middle of the line, tweak them to adjust the curves and then "stroke" it with a paintbrush to make it visible. If you draw shapes, you work your way around the outside of a line, set anchor points to control the curves and then adjust them to line up with the curves. Shapes look better because you can vary the line thickness while paths must all be the same thickness, but paths are MUCH faster and easier to draw.
>> Anonymous
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Oh wow. Thanks for the well thought out and helpful reply. Sometimes I think 4chan will actually become a loving, helpful place, but then I remember it's 4chan.
>> Anonyfap !6L7Jz/ysJc
>>333477
Urgh, strokes for lines = fail

Decent vector although for the varied line weight its better doing the lines as shapes as well.

I only started doing that in my last one and it makes look infinitely better.