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Anonymous
my first attempt >.<
i know there are mistakes but im callin it done :P
>> Anonymous
>>535114
I don't understand... your first attempt at what exactly? Is that supposed to be a vector? (Not trying to troll, seriously curious and hoping to provide constructive criticism)
>> Anonymous
>>535139
yessir my first vector attempt
>> Anonymous
>>535114
>.jpg
>72KB

Ummm, no offense but are you by any chance sight impaired? Can .jpgs be saved at 1% quality?

Ok, I'll limit myself on the insults. I'll tell you a little something about filetypes instead. JPEG uses lossy file compression which means data is given up to make the file smaller. This appears as artifacts (those horrible blocky things around your vector). The higher the quality you save at, the better it looks. This is all right for images natively saved as JPEG such as digital photos or images that are inherently less than perfect quality like scans.

PNG is a lossless compression filetype. Instead of tossing data to make the file smaller it compresses the file sort of the same way a .rar or .zip file would be. Nothing is lost so no artifacting. This can make the file quite large with high detail images like photos but with low color images like vectors it's perfect. No quality loss and small (relatively speaking) filesize.

A couple more quick tips: Fixed width lines don't look that good on organics. Trace the linework as a separate shape for a "handdrawn" appearance. Also, when tracing a screencap it's a bad idea to use the screencap itself as a color reference. The colors tend to be washed out and undersaturated. Poor Miu here looks like she has a liver disease or something. Use official art or something. Finally, save big. Someone might end up wanting to edit something you post long after a thread is dead but the pic is too small. Minimum width for vectors should be 2560.