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by aaron » Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:17 am
You don't even want to know the pain in the ass I went through for this. But here goes...
Me being a drawer, I sketched my koi and waves on paper first.
Next: I scanned it into photoshop. Took the levels and punched it up.
Then saved as a eps. I brought it into Illustrator and did a live trace with manual settings. At this point I thought great I'm done, it looks sharp.. But no. There is a white background. I needed to do pathfinder to separate forground and background. But my main sketch had holes, meaning all the blacks didn't link up. So pathfinder would warp the image. I had to go and I found it had three layers of solid shapes that I had to knock out manually one scale at a time, some scales would take out an entire section, some would just knock out that one scale, anyways, then I did spot pathfinding untill I had three sections where I could knock that background out. I then used the pen tool for color shapes and some black line work, and here is what your most likely reffering to, line quality...........
I take one pen dot, then on the next one a ways from the first you click then hold down the mouse and pull to make a nice round curve, you can then continue with another or click on the second dot and curve in a slightly different direction.
If that doesn't make sense, sorry, sometimes you just gotta see first hand and be walked through it.
Thanks for the feedback and the question.