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And also see the Process here in my blog , and learn from it =D :

Process/Tutorial

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I would also promote my soon to be up for voting design, my Loves Drawing entry- Swallow the Sun

Go here to view the process
Swallow The Sun blog



Also check my collab with FA here:

I'm gonna show you how to make a detailed sketch transformed into a vector artwork suited for a shirt design =D i would also have to credit Mike Mitchell(a.k.a stickymike) MikeMitchell for his awesome linework maker thingy, it helps a lot when your planning to make detailed linework transform into a linework vector =D

I have here now the complete process, if you want to view each images largely, just click each of the images here, and you'll be linked to the flickr photo and just view the larger size of the photos there, have fun learning the process guys!!!




i make first a rough sketch on my sketchpad, and create my
desired shirt design.


done




then i darkened the whole lines with a pen, i use a uni .1 water and fade proof pigment ink




Done, now it's ready to get scanned




open your scanned file on photoshop


adjust the curves to get the exact tone of darkening the
line work


Do the Mike Mitchell's Awesome Linework maker thingy, to
let alone the outline stand for itself and delete the white
background, get the MM's linework maker here and install it
on your photoshop, it helps BIGTIME - link text


test if all the white background is gone by adding
another layer and fill it with another colour


you can add another layer and merge it down with the
linework layer to rasterize it




make a negative effect by changing the colour of the
linework into white and background into black


then ctrl click the layer of the linework to select
all


highlight the background, and click delete to create an
etching effect on the background, you can also delete the
layer above it, just leave the background there



on the layers box, align to it is paths, go there and
click work path


after that you make now export the path you created


open the path on adobe illustrator, select all, and now you see the path you created had points like the ones you see on vectors shapes


fill the selected path with any colour to make it visible


create another rectangular shape, same size as your path



select them all and make a compound path


once you've created it, it will show the linework you have on the screen, you can delete some unwanted shapes and lines too, now you have your linework sketch transformed into a vector work


before i continue vectoring, i usually create a colour
guide, so that i can control the colour limits on this one
since it's a shirt design


you can continue vectoring, make sure that each colour is
assigned to different layer


the colour guide is perfectly helpful, you can also change colour from time to time if you don't feel your first choices


i would like to add some gradients on my design, so on the linework, i made 2 colour combo to create one


i still have to settle on the 8 colour limit, so while
making another gradient i just took 1 existing colour and combined it with the another existing colour, which is also a combo on the first gradient i made


after filling all the colours i make another layer for the highlights, the highlight colour is also taken from another existing colour





you can also add up some shades, and still use existing
colour from your design


done, export the design to photoshop for shirt placement etc... =D

After the controversial Spain Basketball Team photo at the Beijing Olympics, my dogs are doing it too, trying to copy the chow-chow eyes, LOL!

Got carried away

please crit this! help me sub it! thaaaaanks! =D

Haunted by the Prey is up on the running!

Zombie copuple FTW! please vote! =D

I wanna thank Walmazan for the flash suggestion, i can't use those ready made ones that were given here cuz i can't open them up on my Flash MX so I had to make one for myself, thank God I did it! =D

crit here please:

Til Death...

Thanks!

it's up for voting =D