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

[Ington]

If you think it's a dumb thread why are you posting it? AGAIN i'm not setting any guidelines to anything. Scan the forums and look at all the vextors, I don't know about you but they they all look homogeneous with few exceptions.

There is good and bad art, that's why there are these people called art critics. Yes, good and bad art is arbitrary to the artist, but this is on an online forum where people are posting there work. They are looking for opinions and critic.

I agree you can't compare apples to oranges. But is that what we're doing when we're comparing vextors to vextors? If you're considering the layerly style as being 3d then sure but that's not the way I'm looking at it.

Think of it as a duty to one's homeland. My homeland is art. When someone defiles or distorts it, to the smallest degree, I feel a need to protect it. I'm posting here because I am trying to protect art from ridiculous commentaries.

It doesn't matter if they all look the same to you. I think most tissue boxes look the same. I think most cardboard boxes look the same. Does that mean that the cardboard used to make them and the processes to make them are bad? If many people like the same form of art, does that mean that its bad? Are you such a non-conformist that the idea of a majority liking just turns you off to something?

I think nothing you said came close to supporting your argument. So far, you have not discussed your reasoning for why so called 'vextors' are bad. In your first post here, you said:

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?

They're not supposed to look like anything. As [2]Nekked said, they are all just methods to create art. There are 'flat' vectors and vexels, which I have seen a lot on this website anyway, and there are 'layered' ones. And I'm sure there are many more vectorized peices of realism, surrealism, abstraction, etc.

And if you don't think the layered vectors are more realistic than flat vectors, then what are they? Less realistic?

Additionally, critics are respected due to their experience in a certain subject. Critics are not appreciated on Createblog, as you have no credentials, and if you do, you can't prove them. Here, regardless of what profession you've moved into, you are just a member with an opinion, equal to any other member. Don't think you can just blab your opinion about something and have everyone submit to it without supporting yourself with evidence. A critic's evidence is his or her status. You don't have that luxury.