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Episode 10

Jermbo shows us some cool techniques to turn a sketch into a vector masterpiece!

]]> http://pixil.info/tutorials/sketch-to-vector/feed/ 0 00:01:01 Episode 10 Watch Video Play NowStreaming Video YouTubeiPhone Video Coming up on today's epsiode: Jermbo shows us some cool techniques to turn a sketch into a vector masterpiece! I have opened ... Episode 10 Watch Video Play NowStreaming Video YouTubeiPhone Video Coming up on today's epsiode: Jermbo shows us some cool techniques to turn a sketch into a vector masterpiece! I have opened my sketch in Adobe Illustrator CS4. The very first thing I like to do is lock my original art layer, and give it a name of BG. And now add a new layer and call it base. Generally I like to do 95% of my drawing on one layer but there are times when it is necessary to add more, but I will cross that when I get there. Make sure that the layer called base is selected, you know this by the blue highlight over the layer. Grab the direct select tool and then the pen tool. Go down to your foreground and stroke icons and make sure the fill is set to none. You can do that by clicking on the fill box to bring it to the front and the selecting the box with the line through it. Itrsquo;s the third little box. The first one is for a solid color and the second one is for a gradient fill. Now letrsquo;s begin the vectorization! I am going to start at the peace holding hand. And what I am doing is outlining the entire hand not worrying about the details in side. If you noticed that sometimes I donrsquo;t place the node exactly where I want it, I simply press the space bar while the mouse button is still down and move it where I want it to be. Now I am going into the detail parts. Take a few moments and outline the rest on the guy and add the line detail on the inside. One trick that I use for the circle eyes and other objects is grab the oval tool in to tool bar or hit the ldquo;Lrdquo; key, the draw the perfect circle. Donrsquo;t forget to save often! When you think you have everything outlined and all the detail added, turn off the sketch layer. Now turn it back on to see if there is any detail that you might have missed, do this until all the detail is complete. Filling Process This part is important. I grabbed all of the outsides of the outlines, leaving the detail lines alone, and gave them a fill. What! This is all out of whack. Donrsquo;t worry because we are going to take a few seconds to place them where we need them. I want to now go over some hot keys with you. I could send a lot of time selecting an object that I want to move and go to appearance and send back or send front , but that is too time consuming. Instead I am going to use Control plus the Left Bracket key to send back one level. ( Command left bracket on a Mac. ) I am going to continues hitting that combination until that Item is behind the other item. For example notice the shirt sleeve is above the arm, thatrsquo;s not right, I know I want that all the way in the back, so I am going to hit Control plus Shift plus Left Bracket to send it to back. Just use Command instead of control on a Mac. The Same thing with the ear. But notice one eye brow is covered up by the hair, sending it back isnrsquo;t the right thing to do so lets send it all the way to the front. The process is the same sending something back or forth, the difference is the bracket key. So we want to sent this one to the front, lets hit Control plus Shift plus Right Bracket key and BOOM! Its on top. Go ahead and pick some base colors you like for the shirt hair skin and necklace spikes . The blob bruch is coming up. Blob Brush Features Now for the Blob brush! I want oto go over a few settings first so double click on the blob brush icon and the options will show up. Since I am using a wacom tablet then this helps the tool be the best it can. I like to keep selected unchecked and selection limits merged also unchecked. They both do exactly what they say. Fidelity at the lowest number 0.5 allows you to record exactly what movements you make. The higher the number, 20 being the max, the more the computer tried to guess to what you meant. So my number is 2.5, here it copies the right amount of information while fixing the small errors for me. Smoothness does exactly what it says, I like to ke... Illustrator,,Tutorials Pixil.info clean No