Vectoring hand drawnings...
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- Remixt
I need to vector a fairly detailed drawing done in pencil. Any recommendations, beyond the standard trace tools in Ai?
- doesnotexist0
a painstaking task
- ismith0
I guess that means you don't have a wacom... send it to someone who does and pay them a small fee?
- iCanHasQBN0
might help to see the drawing
- monospaced0
What's wrong with LiveTrace? With enough tweaking you can get decent results. The alternatives are slim to none.
- Remixt0
Good looking out, y'all. Looks like I will be chained to the desk for a while...
- Please see "Sex in the Office" thread.iCanHasQBN
- ink it up. then scan and trace.rodzilla
- bzsaw0
1. Trace by hand with a fine tip sharpie ( black or red )
2. Scan at a decent resolution
3. Place in Illustrator
4. Live trace
5. Clean up and add missing details, shading etc. if neededShouldn't take that long
- detritus0
My process, depending on the source artwork -
Scan at high res, into Photoshop
Channel-select the content I want
A succession of very small Guassian Blurs, then
Level-tightening - to tweak out artefacts.
Set channel content as black, set on to white background.
Copy merged result, paste in Illustrator.At this point, artwork shold be higher res than I want, and have nice clean lines, so when I use LiveTrace, it gives a better result. with truer lines requiring less post-conversion fiddling.
Of course, this is only really worthwhile if the source image is quite complex - if it's going to save more than the 5 minutes the above takes.
- point 3 should be 'manually paint out background interference'detritus
- inkpink0
no biggie really, shouldn't be all that time-consuming.
prep with a little guassian blur and some level tweaks in photoshop. a posterize and/or threshold adjustment layer will help preview your tweaks. import and spend some time knowing your livetrace settings.
- spraycan0
vectorize
- Remixt0
@ inkpink & detrius—GOOD LOOKING OUT. That's what I was looking for. Props.