Previously, on Ninth Circle …
As I mentioned last Friday, I’ve finally seen a tutorial (youtube, long) that helped me find a way to vectorize line drawings that isn’t LiveTrace. LiveTrace was, to put it charitably, a complete disaster. Let’s just say that the Pen tool has finally become my friend. Sort of.
Clearly, more practice is needful, but this is how it looks:
The original sketch
A flat bitmap from the vector file
Not so bad, eh? Yes, it’s a bit sparser than the original. Partly because I wanted to be done, partly because I didn’t like some parts of the original. It’s a sort of derivative work. :)
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It’s just a bit more blasted, is all. The weaker twigs were blown off.