hi all, been in the community for a short while and been hearing and seeing wonderful works done by vector art. i'm a lilttle confused and completely lost about this art. Is it a new form of drawing or its a kind of drawing done in corel. do i need to use corel for a long time before i start with vector drawing. help really needed cos its ben bothering me for a while. would greatly appreciate it if someone directs me. thanks
Hi,To do vector art you work with CorelDRAW.To do more traditional style of drawing (but still with a computer though), you work with Corel Photo-Paint, and could be called bitmap art, Photo-paint being a bitmap program.
The two techniques differ in that Vector/object art is a line, stright or curved, connected by nodes. To put it simple.Bitmap art is on the other hand build up by squares. Bits. If you zoom in on a bitmap image, like a photograph, you will see that there is small squares that build up the image. In contrast to Vector/objects being build up differently.So Yes, you need CorelDRAW in this case, to make vector art. If you buy CorelDRAW Graphic Suite, X4 being the latest version, you will get both these programs: CorelDRAW and Corel Photo-Paint. When doing these two kinds of art you can use a ordinary mouse, but I personally use a Wacom Intuos3 tablet. Which is a digital pen to draw with.And yes you can start doing vector art right away if you have CorelDRAW. Then how good you are depends on training, training, training :-)The more we train the better we becomes. May I suggest you viisit this website http://www.advancedartist.com/Tom Knight show in his free tutorials in small movies how he work doing vector art. He is really good. A great site of inspiration. And then you can always visit http://www.unleash.com a great site of inspiration and learning. There is as I know it no movies showing how to do vector art, but a asbsolute great site for learning how to work with CorelDRAW and a lot of great tutorials.
Hope this helps
Have fun!
I you start CorelDRAW 12 at home.Then to the left you have the toolbar.Look for the Bezier and pen tool.Also look for the square and circle tools.All those are vector tools. Theye are the one you make vector art with.Here is a link, and I think you should print out this page.http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Content/1153321231413
If you never have made a vector image you MUST start with the basics. Other ways you will get frustrated :-)In this link there is images, jpeg. Click the right click button on your mouse and save them to your computer.I strongly recomend this. Pratcise to work with the bezier tool and do the excercise several times again, anad again until you know how.
Import them into corelDRAW and copy these lines with the tools in coreldraw.
Hi again,
Okey its time to use some imagination from your part too :-)Personally I dont have files I can send you. But the websites for example, how about open a specific website. When looking at it, then go to the Archive menu in the Firefox or Internet Explorer browser and SAVE that specific page you are looking at. For example the link I suggested: http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Content/1153321231413 . (This one is not a video tutorial, but really great basic vector tutorial. You really should save that, download the entire page to your computer! ) And then after that, save that folder on your computer you have saved the page in, and take it with you on a CD or DVD or USB memory, or something. Then open that webpage now saved to your computer, and open it inside the Firefox or Internet Explorer browser. You can look and at that tutorial locally on your computer. If you can think of buying a book on a CD or DVD, then go to Foster´s website and buy his excellent book, with great tutorials, basic and advanced stuff. CorelDRAW Unleashed 12 http://www.unleash.com/coreldrawx3unleashed/index.asp
Or buy theCorelDRAW Unleashed X3 http://www.unleash.com/coreldrawx3unleashed/index.asp
If you buy the X3 DVD/ book you will be able to do the same thing basically in CorelDRAW 12, if thats the one you have. He has a great offer on that book for the moment.