Vectorz

Ok I lied about not posting, as I am totally a blogging addict. Anyways, I’m excited about the possibility of reading up on an anime-specific tutorial about Vector Tracing. NegativeZero has done some very impressive traces of various anime caps, and made them wallpaper-worthy.

However, I’m not interested in tracing caps personally. I want to learn to more quickly trace my own sketches so that I can have cleaner lineart without the high amount of pain that I currently associate with “inking”. Large curves, especially on higher resolution images, are hard to trace cleanly without paths, but I never really got the hang of using Photoshop paths. I’d like to see how it works in other programs, and gauge how much of a speed improvement it would give. After all, once the sketch is done, it should not be difficult to lay down the vector paths.

Either way, it’d be nice to see how the process works. I’ve moved away from the cell-shading style because of how annoying it is to do cleanly, but I bet it’d be a lot simpler with vectors!

Art Thoughts | Kabitzin 8/18/2006