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]

Tracing is not equivalent to vexelling or vectoring. Many people create vectors and vexels from scratch and without a reference. How can you trace something that you made from scratch? Anyways, the pen tool is not the only tool used in vectoring. Ever heard of gradient mesh? If vexels/vectors are so easy to make, then why can't everyone make them? Why are companies willing to pay so much for vector artists? Why do people even attend art school if it's so easy?
As for the "layery look" , artist chose to use it because they want to portray "realism". It has nothing to do with skill. In fact, simplicity is probably one of the hardest things to achieve. Maybe the problem is you just haven't seen any wonderful examples of realism.