making clipart

[dortonracing]

Im wanting to know how you actually design something.. Do i draw it up and scan it in? or have a program that help do this. What i have done is drawed up a few things for are school football team, so do i just need to scan them in and clean them up, Or whats the best way to go about this? Thanks for the info.

 

[Fred Weiss]

The best way is to scan in your drawing and then hand vectorize it using the Bezier pen and other drawing tools in your program. Some prefer to make a finished drawing with a black Sharpie before scanning and then autotrace it. The quality will be higher and the cutting faster if you draw it by hand with the Bezier pen.

 

[Pat Whatley]

If the art is something with all fluid forms I usually draw it out as cleanly as possible as large as I can comfortably do on an 8.5" x 11" sheet (as large as my scanner can handle)

I scan it, autotrace it, then take a look at the nodes. A lot of times I can adjust the tracing options and get really good results. There are always a few points to correct, and a few to delete but you can get pretty close by starting with a large, clean drawing.

If the art is something with very geometric shapes I'll scan it, then redraw it using the different shape tools and pen drawing tools.

 

[Jackpine]

Same here.

If the art is something with all fluid forms I usually draw it out as cleanly as possible as large as I can comfortably do on an 8.5" x 11" sheet (as large as my scanner can handle)

I scan it, autotrace it, then take a look at the nodes. A lot of times I can adjust the tracing options and get really good results. There are always a few points to correct, and a few to delete but you can get pretty close by starting with a large, clean drawing.

If the art is something with very geometric shapes I'll scan it, then redraw it using the different shape tools and pen drawing tools.

 

[Mainframe]

Learn to use the bezier tools in your program, I suggest, Adobe illustrator or Corel. Scan in your artwork, place it in a page & force yourself to learn to draw over it, before you know it you will be able to vectorize most anything, quickly & cleanly.

 

[TheSnowman]

If you can draw halfway decent, draw it out, scan it in, and send it to the vector doctor.

 

[OldPaint]

i can take some JPEG into corel, and with the pen/line tool and mostly redraw it on the screen. simple shapes do good as scanned/vectored. if you have a TABLET/pen this is also great. i got a shareware program called TWISTED BRUSH..........its wild.