# I want to learn vetor art! **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [January 18, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543 "2003-01-18T21:16:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![calaway42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@calaway42](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/calaway42)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/1 "2003-01-18T21:16:43Z")
vector arts sooo cool šŸ˜ƒ i want to learn !!! does anyone good at vector art or know any tutorial sites? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/2 "2003-01-18T22:26:26Z")
Kitiara did a great line art tutorial on this site that would give you a good start, here is the link. [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/lineart.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/lineart.asp) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/3 "2003-01-18T22:49:18Z")
[http://www.josephnicklo.com/files/tutorial/vector/](http://www.josephnicklo.com/files/tutorial/vector/) a great tut from the maker of Anti-Cub. this is for PS7 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/4 "2003-01-19T05:20:33Z")
vector art in ps7? :geek: i read a thread somewhere it is possibleā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/5 "2003-01-19T05:33:52Z")
True vector images maintain image quality even after being rescaled in the program. While that tutorial makes it look vector, if you rescale it in PS to a larger size, it will break up and start to pixelate. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/6 "2003-01-19T08:37:19Z")
ya i thought vector art was just drawing over the real picture make it look like a clip art or whatever you call it šŸ˜‰ but itā€™s really hard to do it on photoshop, wish i had a wacom, my friend told me Freehand works good with vector arts so i downloaded trial version, i got few more days left to learn this !! ahhh!! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/7 "2003-01-19T08:39:14Z")
Yeah most of my vector art was done by tracing over images of the real thing. I worked with freehand for a while, but I like Illustrator more since Iā€™m use to it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/8 "2003-01-19T08:39:24Z")
oh and electrongeek, isnt your digital supra a vector art? is that how you did those ? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/9 "2003-01-19T08:42:17Z")
interestingā€¦ i have illustrator but i never use itā€¦ donno y but never got friendly with it šŸ˜ƒ but what tool in illustrator did you use to trace it ? i mean itā€™s a pain in the butt with Photoshop, especially when it comes to round parts ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 8:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/10 "2003-01-19T08:43:05Z")
> \*Originally posted by calaway42 \* > \*\*oh and electrongeek, isnt your digital supra a vector art? is that how you did those ? \*\* Yup, all my vector art was just basically tracing over images of the real thing in Illustrator. I just zoomed in super close to the real image and traced out each piece. I used mostly the pen tool to trace and I used the gradient mesh tool to add the detail like highlights. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/11 "2003-01-19T08:46:11Z")
icā€¦ya im really excited to learn more about vector arts, i want to vector art cars, like you did with supra(that one was nice one) šŸ˜› im gonna try with eclipse gsx tomorrow and i will post it up here so i can get comments from an expert (u :D) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 8:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/12 "2003-01-19T08:49:02Z")
hahah itā€™s not that hard, just take an image of the car and zoom in super close to it and trace each piece out. Itā€™s really time consuming, but the end result is rewarding. If I wasnā€™t so lazy, I would probably do some more, but just thinking about it kills it for me. šŸ˜ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 9:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/13 "2003-01-19T09:05:16Z")
what you think is more time consumingā€¦that zoom technique or pixel artā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 10:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/14 "2003-01-19T10:38:01Z")
pixel art, that stuff takes a lot of patience. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/15 "2003-01-19T22:35:15Z")
imo itā€™s really not worth doing much vector art unless youā€™re actually making it vector (i.e not PS) because as stated before, you really do lose all the zoomability, and i think it even looks a bit differentā€¦ add to that the fact you donā€™t have as much gradient control, and canā€™t do things like blendsā€¦ i think itā€™s also more difficult to quickly change color schemes with non-vector line art just some random thoughts Stuart ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/16 "2003-01-20T01:03:45Z")
take a look at [www.microbians.com](http://www.microbians.com) I love their vector arts!!! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/17 "2003-01-20T04:33:39Z")
Microbians is only one guy, and I believe he does his vector art in Flash. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/18 "2003-01-20T04:48:09Z")
really? vector art in flash? guess i will try that šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/19 "2003-01-20T04:50:31Z")
Vector art could me made in a number of programsā€¦Illustrator, Freehand, Flash, and Fireworks are the ones Iā€™m aware of. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543/20 "2003-01-20T05:19:19Z")
Yes it can šŸ™‚ And yes in Flash, Flash is vector based. I believe I remember reading somewhere that he did all his work in Flash, not sure where though. [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-learn-vetor-art/11543.md?page=2)