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!
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.
Hi,I just wrote an answer, but something made it having to be approved by the Corel administrator. You really have to try to be more imaginative here. I cant for example send you a file. I wouldnt now where to start.I say in simple. Go to the pages I have suggested, download, Save as, those pages locally onto your computer. Then open the pages and images you have saved inside the browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer), and sit in the nice comfy sofa at home, and do the tutorials. Especially this one I already suggested: http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Content/1153321231413
You really should save to your computer. You do this via the File menu in Firefox or Internet Explorer.You also have within your CorelDRAW in the HELP menu, a lot of resources on how to make vector illustrations. But before you do anything you really MUST do those exercises mentioned in this link I suggested. Go to that link and save the webpage on to your computer. Now. Ok
And one more thing, these illustrations you see in the gallery section is made using several different techniques.Some are made with strictly Bezier tool.Some with Corel PowerTRACE, meaning they have used a photograph, made it to a bitmap, and then used Corel PowerTRACE to TRACE it for them, meaning Vectorising it. And from there fixed them very nicely. Other have used the Mesh Fill tool to make realistic illustrations. Other have made them even more different. But if you really like to know about making vector art, you really should give you the knowledeg on making vector images, art, using the ordinary tools and shapes. To start with.If you practise to get control over the Bezier tool and its nodes, then you are really gonna start to learn how to make great vector art. Its like learning how to drive a car at a school before you go driving by your own on the streets of Ghana. Learning how to walk before you run. Kind of. Its a bit complicated at first, but after repeating the tutorials in the link I gave, in my post above, on Corels own site, you will soon start to rock!
And as I said, save the page on to your computer. Its like if I would have sent you a word file, OK .
Hi Andrew,I got your email and I did check the website www.smartfills.com. Your own website if I got it right. I answer your email in this post/thread.I am not a mathematician, I am an illustrator and artist, who happens to do vector art. My believe is that no matter how great a tool is, its what we create with the tool in the end that counts. Yes I am a curious person, but weather I would try your painting tool in www.smartfills.com, or some other programs painting tool, isnt the question for me in this thread. Its about how to make vector art. And our friend from Ghana needs to be able to make vector art, and in this case using CorelDRAW. And even if your program www.smartfills.com may be a great vector program, yes, I think that CorelDRAW CorelTRACE as well as the new PowerTRACE can get the results of very realistic images, after vectorising them. The vectorizing program in CorelDRAW is very powerful.Thank you for sending me the link www.smartfills.com , its always interesting to see whats out there, but I am a CorelDRAW Graphic Suite user, and will continue being one.