vexeling and vectoring, A different take on what it looks like. Options

[Ktru]

Hey everyone, there just something that's been bothering me about the forum's ethnic on vexeling and vectoring (which I will call Vextor).

So i'm browsing this forums and I'm looking at all the vextoring of people pictures and I'm thinking to myself gosh these people suck. Why is it that 99% of all the vextor images soo layery? Vexels and vectors are suppost to look flat aren't they?

Maybe you're new to vexeling or vectoring and so you're following the shapes that was created when you desaturate. But it seems like the popular notion of vectoring and vexeling is just to follow the shapes created by photoshop.

I think of graphic design as a form of art. Learning how to vexel and vector is hard because it takes time to learn what kind of shapes you need to make and what kind of opacity the shape should be. To make a good vextor you need to learn the basics ( how to desaturate. how to create shapes, how to blend the layers, etc) after you have that what you do with the vectoring should be up to you. Experiment with the color and shapes to create something different.

Here's a tutorial that I thought was great on vextoring. Can someone else provide their tutorial so I can see what they're doing?

http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-vector.html

let me know what your take on this is

[*[2]Nekked*]

Aww sweety. I'm not mad. I find you mildly entertaining. Been doing this since highschool? How about been doing this since middleschool, majored in it in college and now doing it for a living fulltime and making bank?

And, not just wikipedia, love. It originated from a text book. Many text books, in fact. Text books that we're forced to read in college, and that definition I cited is something commited to memory.

Is there a proper and improper way to design? It's art, silly. Think about all the people that told Picasso he was doing it all wrong. You're following right into the footsteps of people that are now ridiculed and frowned upon in vast collections of Art History text books.

I notice that you havent supplied a retort to the logical explanations of vector design i have so kindly provided you with. Either way you should calm down.

Kthx.

And once more, with feeling: I'm done with this thread. This is my last response. Your views were entertaining at first, but now you're just not being very nice.

[*mona lisa*]

Is there a proper and improper way to design? It's art, silly. Think about all the people that told Picasso he was doing it all wrong.

Ditto.

I don't see why art cannot "evolve". Although I'm not an expert on vector graphics, I've never heard of vectors being limited to flat, 2D shapes.

Best way to set yourself apart is by doing something different.