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Coco Anonymous
yay for illustrator :D
>> Anonymous
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so here's my question about vectoring:
- How do you get different strokes within a line? (where one part can be a thin line and the other end is a thicker line)
- Illustrator or Photoshop?
- How do you color something that blends the shadow/light with the ...foreground? (aka something other than a video screenshot) (aka something like this pic)
>> Anonymous
>>195323

-Depends on the program you are using, see brushes.
-Illustrator
-mad skills, yo
>> Anonymous
>>195323
easy, vector it as a shape not a line.
>> MR. Anon
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er... great. next time use the raws
>> Doppelgänger !.97.to9elc
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Also, since your image is greyscale, it'd make more sense to export as 8-bit.
>> use Adobe Illustrator Anonymous
first if available to you, use Adobe Illustrator over photoshop's [pseudo] vector drawing abilities.

to get the "thick and thin" line effect you
could use a pressures sensitive drawing tablet but it takes a LOT of practice to get used to it and get it to do what you want... using the "brush" styles kinda sorta works but it's not predictable - meaning the line won't always be thick where you want it to be thick and thin where you want it to be thin - it's a crap shoot as to how it turns out.

the other method [mentioned by Anon] was draw as a shape rather then a line (stroke)... what he means is you will be tracing the outer edges of both sides of the thick/thin lines in a drawing then filling the resulting line shape with black.

this is the best way and the resulting vector image will look a lot more like the original hand drawn image but this also takes a LOT of time...

one other possible method is Illustrator's "Live Trace" feature. it's also a crap shoot - sometimes after playing with the settings you may get something thats workable or maybe something that is a "good start" and you can further edit it by hand to get the final result yer after...