intercity Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 gracias Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giving Tree Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 how many of you use tablets to draw in illustrator or other programs? I'm considering investing in a Wacom Intuos 3 9x12 tablet and getting into more digital drawing and such... so I'm just curious if anyone uses tablets and or likes them.... I think I'd be much more capable with a "pen" tool than a mouse, as I am simply more inclined to draw acurately with a pen/pencil type utencil. any ideas or suggestions? feel free to pm me as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trioxic Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 Originally posted by Giving Tree@May 26 2005, 05:32 PM how many of you use tablets to draw in illustrator or other programs? I'm considering investing in a Wacom Intuos 3 9x12 tablet and getting into more digital drawing and such... so I'm just curious if anyone uses tablets and or likes them.... I think I'd be much more capable with a "pen" tool than a mouse, as I am simply more inclined to draw acurately with a pen/pencil type utencil. any ideas or suggestions? feel free to pm me as well. Quoted post I have one of the smaller tablets, but i rarely use it with Illustrator. It just feel's weird for some reason and i cant really draw that good with it, but it goes perfect with photoshop as i do alot of photo clean up work at my job and it's so much faster than a mouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Green Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 using a wacom in any program take a bit of determination and lots of practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunTimePartyTeam Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 Gtree- Echoing trioxic, I find my tablet is really helpful when using some of the selection tools in photoshop. Also good for drawing etc in painter or ps. However i cant say that i've ever used it for illustrator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giving Tree Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 it's just that i've been playing in illustrator and the mouse feels very counter-intuitive. I hardly ever get the stroke i want, it seems to "hang up" in sections, and ultimately feels awkward. Similar to Dalek (i know, i know) i want to be able to replicate my work in illustrator for re-printing purposes, and exploring a digital media. The mouse just seems like a bad choice. Could it be my mouse is just a cheap piece of crap, or am i just too impatient to learn the craft? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Green Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 an important thing to do when you are using a waccom tablet is to double click on the brush or pencil icon in the tool bar. an options screen will pop up.. turn off "fill stroke with color" and "keep selected" adjust fidelity and tolerance to whatever feels appropriate.. spend about 30 minutes.. building some new calligraphic brushes.. of different thicknesses pressure sensitivty and angles... make sure to save your new set of brushes.. either way youre going to have to spend time editing vectors and paths.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirkone Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 I have just got illustrator but have a basic idea of how to use it. I found a tutorial on how to make human pictures into cartoon if you know what I mean...Part of this process it to find the shading on the person, but I find it really hard to see where the shadow is on a persons clothes and skin. Is there a simpler way of making the shadow stand out or any certain shades stand out, or do I have to just look extra carefully, figure it out for myself and draw around the dark bits with the pen tool? If i'm speaking a lot of confusion to you, sorry about it, I'm finding it hard to explain what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Green Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 i dont follow what youre asking.. highlighting a shadow is contradiction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaperbackWriter Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 class assignment. vacation poster. AbuDhabi meets Weekend At Bernie's/Miami Vice/Back to the Future 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheArchitect Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 Originally posted by shirkone@May 26 2005, 02:47 PM I have just got illustrator but have a basic idea of how to use it. I found a tutorial on how to make human pictures into cartoon if you know what I mean...Part of this process it to find the shading on the person, but I find it really hard to see where the shadow is on a persons clothes and skin. Is there a simpler way of making the shadow stand out or any certain shades stand out, or do I have to just look extra carefully, figure it out for myself and draw around the dark bits with the pen tool? If i'm speaking a lot of confusion to you, sorry about it, I'm finding it hard to explain what I mean. Quoted post Increase the contrast on the image....this should help you to differentiate between highlight, midtown, and shadow areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavyLox Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 Originally posted by shirkone@May 26 2005, 05:47 PM I have just got illustrator but have a basic idea of how to use it. I found a tutorial on how to make human pictures into cartoon if you know what I mean...Part of this process it to find the shading on the person, but I find it really hard to see where the shadow is on a persons clothes and skin. Is there a simpler way of making the shadow stand out or any certain shades stand out, or do I have to just look extra carefully, figure it out for myself and draw around the dark bits with the pen tool? If i'm speaking a lot of confusion to you, sorry about it, I'm finding it hard to explain what I mean. Quoted post you need an image with a higher contrast maybe? or you can take the image into photoshop and up the contrast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
count chocula Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 Originally posted by heavyLox+May 28 2005, 10:14 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (heavyLox - May 28 2005, 10:14 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-shirkone@May 26 2005, 05:47 PM I have just got illustrator but have a basic idea of how to use it. I found a tutorial on how to make human pictures into cartoon if you know what I mean...Part of this process it to find the shading on the person, but I find it really hard to see where the shadow is on a persons clothes and skin. Is there a simpler way of making the shadow stand out or any certain shades stand out, or do I have to just look extra carefully, figure it out for myself and draw around the dark bits with the pen tool? If i'm speaking a lot of confusion to you, sorry about it, I'm finding it hard to explain what I mean. Quoted post Quoted post [/b] posterize dat shit- it'll dumb down the blends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirkone Posted May 30, 2005 Share Posted May 30, 2005 Ah wicked, cheers for the help guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekro Posted June 3, 2005 Share Posted June 3, 2005 Gradient mesh for my graphic design class. 45 minutes a day for about 2-3 weeks. This fucking thing made me hate color. This other stuff is just for my own enjoyment. I'll post more later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPORTO Posted June 4, 2005 Share Posted June 4, 2005 In Back 2 d future 2, the wheels on the car are folded up when its fly'n. Its a comonly made mistake though, so I wouldnt lose any sleep over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villain Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 I love my wacom. I feel retarted doing art with a mouse. And a wacom is pressure sensitive... and it even has an eraser on the back... Probably better for more traditional looking art done in photoshop or painter. Lately I'm learning maya. Talk about a steep learning curve. Y'all should peep this board though... http://www.cgtalk.com/ And you can find TONS of tutorials there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kousin Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 not sure how long ago this thread started, or if its dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kousin Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 that didn't work. How do you post an image on this thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BooZY WooZY Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 you need a picture storage acount. I use http://www.photobucket.com, then you load your images onto there. Then you can copy and paste the html codes to a fourm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
count chocula Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 still workin' on the image- the text is booty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeakSauce Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 A lot of great shit in here. Here's some work of mine, nothing special: <object codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="480" width="640"> <param name="movie" value="Untitled-4.swf"> <param name="play" value="true"> <param name="loop" value="true"> <param name="quality" value="best"> <param name="Scale" value="showall"> <param name="align" value="center"> <embed src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/RobertLBurgess/Untitled-4.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" quality="best" loop="true" scale="showall" play="true" align="center" height="480" width="640"> <<--shirt submission for threadless.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackFlux Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 I posted this in 'The Yard'. But someone there suggested I post it here. I know how to do this: In Illustrator how are you guys/gals over laying with patterns (top arrorw)? How do you get those lines (bottom arrow)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BooZY WooZY Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Wow this shit is crazy... i was wondering if any one could hook me a copy of Illistrator. Drop me a PM if ya can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s.urkaleeno Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Black Flux: You can bring that 3D into Photoshop and clean up that stepping on the edges of the letters. It would look a lot crisper. Overlaying patterns: Color it in Photoshop and clean it up in illustrator The bottom arrow ?: I think those are seperate vectors, I would be surprised if it was a pattern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amItoolate? Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 i really dig that steez, weaksauce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavyLox Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 ^^^^ i agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackFlux Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 thanks s.urkaleeno... Photoshoped: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirkone Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Originally posted by diggity@Mar 20 2005, 03:48 PM Anyone know of any tutorials or anything that can teach me how to make this kind of style from real pictures? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Green Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 doing that isnt super complicated.. its really well exectuted though.. its just a matter of being able to control bezier curves, simplify shapes. smooth and adjust.. and add some gradients. alot of doing illustrator isnt about artistic talent. its about tracing and interpretting into something more visually interesting or clear. just invest sometime.. i learned through trial and error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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