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

[energizerbunny]

Many vector artists sadly don't appreciate vexel art, so I feel it's weird that you should merge "vexels" and "vectors" again on their behalf. It's not a big deal, though.
Actually, many vectorers/vexellers don't posterize or do anything to an image before working on it. Many don't even use a reference.
"A Scanner Darkly" uses rotoscoping I think so I wouldn't consider it the most "artistic movie" out there. Rather than drawing/animating everything from scratch, they basically traced over human frames.*shrugs*
I guess your whole "layery" agruement is a matter of opinions, but I don't think you should say someone's art (ex-skin) is good or bad. Art can't be good or bad.
Do you have any experience in vexels/vectors yourself? In my honest opinion, it seems you just read that tutorial on the Bjork vector and decided to make it your philosophy on vectors/vexels.

This is off topic, but I feel weird suddenly posting in this topic because I'm not an active member. I stumbled across this forum a while back and I decided to take a look at all the design talent so I hope you all don't think I'm butting in.