[the_um]

Great drawing guys, I'm jealous I'm not at your level yet. I just got illustrator installed, I wanted to get familiar with the program what everyone is talking about. I very familiar with photoshop but when I jump on illustrator it looks simple but the tools are completely complicated it seems. At least for me. Can some give me helpful tips on how to trace a drawing I did, and also do light shading?

[Daddy Screw]

Originally Posted by the_um (View Original Post)

Great drawing guys, I'm jealous I'm not at your level yet. I just got illustrator installed, I wanted to get familiar with the program what everyone is talking about. I very familiar with photoshop but when I jump on illustrator it looks simple but the tools are completely complicated it seems. At least for me. Can some give me helpful tips on how to trace a drawing I did, and also do light shading?

just takes time to get used to.

to trace an image:

1 make sure the image is selected (there'll be a line around it the colour of the layer its on)
2 object>live trace>tracing options, and pick one of the defaults, such as 'technical drawing' or 'colour 16'
3 check the preview box. this will show you how the default setting you picked is going to affect your chosen image
4 tweak the settings ('path fitting','minimum area' etc) till you're satisfied with the result

and its done.

not sure what you mean by light shading, but once its traced and still selected, click on 'expand'. this ungroups all the vectors (lines) and then you can fill them in using live paint.

[Daddy Screw]

messing about with revok's colours. did this about a year ago.

[Daddy Screw]

and the original:

[the_um]

Originally Posted by Daddy Screw (View Original Post)

just takes time to get used to.

to trace an image:

1 make sure the image is selected (there'll be a line around it the colour of the layer its on)
2 object>live trace>tracing options, and pick one of the defaults, such as 'technical drawing' or 'colour 16'
3 check the preview box. this will show you how the default setting you picked is going to affect your chosen image
4 tweak the settings ('path fitting','minimum area' etc) till you're satisfied with the result

and its done.

not sure what you mean by light shading, but once its traced and still selected, click on 'expand'. this ungroups all the vectors (lines) and then you can fill them in using live paint.

Wow, it's looks digitally altered into perfection. Props!

[k9000]

to trace an image:

1) find an images
2) trace the shapes
3) man up
4) voila

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there isn't really anything you can do with shading in illustrator unless you are familar with crosshatching. in cs4 they have gradients that can fade to transparency so that might be what you are looking for.

as far as smooth transitions of color and pixels, stick to photoshop.

photoshop=raster imagery (images made up of pixels)
illustrator=vector imagery (images not made up of pixels)

[the_um]

What about making this design in illustrator;



Is it possible?

[__ __ __ __]

Originally Posted by kephaone (View Original Post)

you can see some of my work here..
http://detourstudio.blogspot.com/

dope work.. you go to school for any of it?

[Daddy Screw]

Originally Posted by the_um (View Original Post)

What about making this design in illustrator;



Is it possible?

yerp. lol, its the dom & roland productions logo.


type out the letters you want, then, while they're still selected, go to effect>3d>extrude&bevel

dunno how to get that concrete fill though, explore the prog a bit.

afaik he did that in vectorworks.

[stealthyxcougar]

[kephaone]

that font kinda sucks^

[$HOOD RICH$]

the straight edge thing is great...except for that old english... shoulda drawn it out yourself, then pen tooled like the rest

[stealthyxcougar]

yea i guess i should've, got a little lazy towards the end haha

[Enmity]

the image is nice but....




fuck straight edge

[stealthyxcougar]

Originally Posted by Enmity (View Original Post)

the image is nice but....




fuck straight edge

don't hate on a way of life man, i don't say "fuck potheads and people who party"

most of my friends fall into one of those categories actually

thanks for saying the image was nice though

[__ __ __ __]

Life Long? Or Live long?

[stealthyxcougar]

life, the text was not the best choice at all

[Rustofills]

Fuck anyone that hates for no reason.

[tae]

for some reason shift is not constraining proportions for me when i scale text in illustrator today.
images can be scaled using shift but its not working for type.
anyone got any ideas as to what this might be??

[tae]

ah... apparently its something to do with point type/area type.
never knew that difference existed