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| I worked on this paisley for 3 days. Here are some of the steps I went through to get it into repeat. |
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| the original "art" from the client |
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| had to reduce it to B+W first, worked in photoshop (psd) |
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| considered completing paisley by hand drawing got this far and nixed the notion I can draw nicer shapes with the pen tool in ai |
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| straightened it out using skew transformation |
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| mirrored the elements I then took it all into Illustrator (ai) and Live Traced |
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| here are elements that I pulled to make custom ai brushes |
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| here are all the brushes in ai |
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| working out the repeat |
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| it's all little bits of vectors from the Live Tracing big file! |
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| repeat done I then exported it to psd and brought back into ai re-Live Traced to make it a nice simplified flat file adjusted colors to beige + grey |
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| finally done celebrated with chocolate truffles |
This is amazing work. Thanks for sharing all the steps you went through - so much tracing. Beautiful design! Completion was definitely worth more than just THREE truffles. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Melanie. It did seem to take me forever. (I didn't stop at three!)
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