how do ppl create those fancy vectors?
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- qruise
it seems like everyone is incorporating this shit these days.. for instance, look at many of the examples on this site:
theyre so prevalent now i'm wndering if most people are just using stock brush sets, or is everyone ACTUALLY painstakingly pentool-drawing every single one of those thnigs every single time? is there an easier way to do it then manually trying to make perfect loops with the pen tool hundreds of times?
- brandelec0
if it was that easy, everyone would be doing em no?
- version30
some people will never get it done unless someone else does it for them
it is alot easier than you think though
turn off music, turn off tv, don't expect to be done in 15 minutes
oh yeah , try (most important part)
- qruise0
it seems like everyone IS doing them, i seem them everywhere :P
- digitalswarm0
Everyone IS doing them... And that's a problem.
- digitalswarm0
Whoa. Jinx.
- tank0
lotsa stock footage
art nouvau textures, trace them, adjust them etc..a lot of work though...
- Momentum20
or just buy them ;)
- johndiggity0
someone has in fact done them already and there's no good reason to waste time redoing it.
http://www.doverbooks.co.uk/prod…
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
Alot of that is probably scanned and flirted w/in photoshop... made into quick vectors using tracing programs etc... and 'some' may be hand-rendered to perfection... there's a ton of different ways to achieve the 'look'... but to get that 'victorian scroll work' - I'd advised first doing some research on old victorian patterns (wall paper, furniture apholestry etc... possibly dig into some art nouveau for visuals too)...
.... and by the time you got good at that maximalist 'style'... people wouldn't be doing it anymore. :) At least not in the exact style that the jpg's you posted are showing (it IS everywhere - and it's marketed at us mainly... designery/brand motived /consciously aware of trendy stuff type people.
It's a fad, dude - learn the technique though... being able to create intricate stuff will only make you more valuable in the future... do it for the 'know how' and avoid the trend (unless you're specifically designing for the demographic /MTVish under 30-ish crowd.. :) ).
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
woah... great reference link there, diggity!
- ********0
they buy them from WWFT
- ********0
sorry, YWFT
- johndiggity0
a lot of the dover books come with cd's now too. in fact these guys used some of those same images on the new album and site: http://www.thieverycorporation.c…
- ********0
get one of those dover books for like $10, scan it in, use auto-trace in illi CS2, that's a great start.
OR
I was working with Dan from thundercut one time, i was like "oh, that'll have to be traced out it'll take too long" kind of like saying it was too much work and we should think of other options -
he kind of got mad and told me to just do it, and i realized that it might take 30 minutes or so but then it would be done and it would be kickass.
moral of the story: spend some time on it, don't look for a filter to do the work.
- Jaline0
Yeah it definitely takes a while to do all that work. Sometimes it's weird, since you spend all this time doing the work and ppl keep using brushes, some of which are poorly done but others that are pretty good.