Illustrator help
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- nylon
Am trying to redraw this...
My curves are shit...
Is there a way / tutorial to do this better?
Any help would be appreciated
Thank you
- nylon0
- The curves look sloppy. Is there an easy way to do this kind of art?nylon
- draw a path with 4 points (each end and then at the curve extremes. Add a stroke. Then mess with the Stroke profile / and or / stroke width tool.Centigrade
- Repeat for each line.Centigrade
- correct answerBrabo_Brabo
- nb3
- Nairn0
Are you using this?:
Width Tool, Shift W.
- What?
I have been doing this wrong for 20yearsmonNom - No you've not, it was only introduced in.. well, a while back now. But not 20 years :)Nairn
- I think this is literally the last worthwhile Illustrator update I could justify the CC charge for (*paging PonyBoy) and this was way over a decade ago.Nairn
- ^ 100%Gnash
- I've paid at least £2-3k to continue having Illustrator alone over the last decade. Why?Nairn
- We need a Blender for the 2D Vector world.Nairn
- What?
- monospaced0
place anchors at the points where tangents are perfectly horizontal
- shapesalad0
draw all of it straight horizontally.
Turn into brush
draw the curved overall shape.
apply it as a brush.- or draw it all straight, apply warp distort thingyshapesalad
- shapesalad0
Buy a time machine, go back to the early 2000's.... draw it then as some sort of naff clip art for microsoft using Freehand.
Get back in time machine. Go to NOW!
Buy old PC off eBay that is running Windows NT 3.1.
Find your drawing in the Word clip art folder.
- <- this is my process. a bit complicated, but it works!monNom
- nylon0
Would anyone fancy drawing this for for me? I will pay. Needs to look the same though but better based on what we are talking about.
Let me know - thank ya
- Use AI's Image Trace (default will be B&W, so set to color). Expand. Path->Simplify to reduce points. Clean up with pen tools.evilpeacock
- Oh god no evilmonospaced
- Is one way to start so and "look the same" — but yes it's better to do it right.evilpeacock
- Live Trace, oh lordyBrabo_Brabo