What's the vector, victor?

How can I draw in vector, but feel like i'm using pixels?

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Education

Tags:

• webcomics
• halfpixel
• inking
• digital
• wacom
• illustrator
• photoshop
• flash

[romeorhino]

"Object>Expand Appearance" on your strokes in Illustrator and you can erase without losing thickness variation.

[Fernando2045]

Are you inside your washroom?

[yksnimus]

what tablet you using there? ._. I dont think I can vary the pressure that much with bamboo pen, can I?

[TheStoomie]

@Legop4o Yup, that's what I was gonna suggest. Illustrator's "LiveTrace" is a godsend, and it's setting are totally adjustable to how it interprets your pixel inks and creates a vector version of it.

[whalenbrowne]

In flash, you can create your own brush style and/or edit the scale ( i believe there is a slider in the tool properties ).

[EdGauthier1]

Chris should have been able to help you on this, Scott. You would think that whatever probs you had with Flash, Chris would have faced the same on a daily basis and had to overcome them.

Did you specifically ask him how to solve the zoom in/zoom out brush thickness ratio puzzle? Meaning that if there is no indicator or button to fix this, how the heck does CHRIS get around the problem?

[banytube11]

" illustrator is the best. "

dont say it is impossible to erase the overlaping part of the line, if you simply dont know how to use scissors tool "D"D

[M0man]

So I missed your question about the eraser tool, The easiest way I could recommend for how you work would be to select the three intersecting lines, Expand their appearance and then use unite in the pathfinder before using the eraser tool. Hope that helps

[M0man]

Go for Illustrator, Once you have a work flow and a collection of brushes that's set up for your work it'll be a breeze.

[angeltread]

i think i get it now.... ok im going searching right now. thank you very much

[GordanBlake]

YT comments are making me mad... hehe

The Blob Brush is in the Illustrator CS4 toolbar the vertical bar on the left. It's a new feature of CS4 and basically makes unnecessary the good solution AmBoy00 posted.