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Drawing in Illustrator?


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#1 Dreamer

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Posted 12 January 2004 - 07:06 AM

OK this may be a dumb question to many but since i have no idea, well almost no idea, imma ask anyways.

How the heck do people draw some of these characters or items that I see in vector based illustrator graphics. Like alot of the logos I see people making here.

Freehand, scanning and the path tool or?
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#2 simplistik

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Posted 12 January 2004 - 12:45 PM

Sketch it, scan it, the use the pen tool to design it.

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#3 jamesking

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Posted 12 January 2004 - 01:05 PM

If I have a picture of something that I want to turn into an illustration, I open it in photoshop, apply quite a high contrast to it, then go >> Image >> Adjustments >> Posterize, and enter either 3 or 4. This should then give you a simplified image which I then import into illustrator and trace.
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#4 Dreamer

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Posted 12 January 2004 - 10:30 PM

Thank you both for clarifying how to do that.
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#5 Dreamer

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Posted 12 January 2004 - 10:59 PM

Oh if anyone has any good tutorials for making logos as an example, in illustrator, please let me know.

I found a few on other subjects last night while search google.

I do a decent job in PS, but if someone wants one scalable for larget publications im sol.

Thanks again
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#6 simplistik

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Posted 13 January 2004 - 10:53 PM

Illustrator is just like Photoshop, minus airbrushing and all that jazz. Tools work almost the same, it's not hard to learn at all. But if you make your logos at 300-600 dpi then you should be fine in PS as well.

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#7 Dreamer

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Posted 13 January 2004 - 11:33 PM

currently I make them at 300dpi, maybe I should bump it up to 600?

Also Im getting more of a feel for illustrator, but I find my self trying to find the paint can a lot lol and trying to use the marquee tool to select a image and delete or trim it down.

It's the simple things I think thats throwing me off course.

But like they say practice makes perfect!
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#8 dbdbdesigns

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Posted 14 January 2004 - 02:43 PM

Well if your and artist and you are use to using a pencil, I reccomend and artists pad, pen tool. Either in Illustrator or Photoshop you can get the same result. Just my opinion
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#9 oTTo

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Posted 15 January 2004 - 10:20 PM

If you ask 10 different Illustrator users, you'll get 10 different theories and practices.

You will come into your own with time.

I think the pen tool is key when working with illustrator. Get a good understanding of how it works and you will be enlightened. Good Luck
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#10 psyris

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Posted 16 January 2004 - 05:38 AM

lol otto

n e way i cant help u as i wish to learn illustrator as well so ill take n e advice i can get...

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