Attempt With Illustrator

[Kitiara]

I've had this program for almost a year and have barely touched it. So I decided it's time I started. :) This is just playing around with tapered brushes and the pen tool.

It's soooo different from using Flash to draw... :sure:

http://thumbs.deviantart.com/300W-96A096/large/indyart/anime/Not_A_Morning_Girl.gif

[lostinbeta]

WOAH! That is freakin' awesome Kit!!! Add some color/shading and that would probably better than your Flash Line Art (if that's even possible)!

[Kitiara]

Colour it? <b>*Gulp*</b> :stunned:

Thanks. :)

[lostinbeta]

Hehe.... :evil:

[DDD]

illustrator and freehand also fireworks kills flash in vector capabilities....awesome work Kit......!!!!

[T-O]

THat's awsome. now just a guy and some animation
if you know what i mean =P

[DDD]

hey TO i have noticed some of your posts lack a bit of taste....but that is just my observation.....but nice to see you did not say it sucked :)

[Soul]

Holy jesus!! Thats awesome!!! :beam: such a unique style too :)

Another notch for Kit :love:

- Soul :s:

[mdipi]

wow kit! i always thought illustrator was really hard. i tryed it but didnt like it. i donno it was just really different. that is amazing!

[nobody]

Kit
That's gotta be your best peice yet.
Great job, I love it.

[Alex]

wow, thats awsome!!!

you just got to add some color...

:P :P

[c!rYx]

Wow, this is insane. Really sweet :)

[UNFLUX]

thats' really good kit - very nice. =)

very sexy, if that's possible for a line art girl...if that's even a girl?!

ok , I'll shut up now...:-\

[ahmed]

looks awesome.. would be cool if she had a face though :P

[iLikePie]

do you have a bigger version available? it's hard to see all the detail in that one, and i want to see all the tapered stuff etc, and also how all the folds look... very cool from what i can see

What tool do you use mainly? freehand or the bezier one?

it's really cool... :P
Stuart

[fission]

im new here..and wow..that is some nice drawing..i cant even draw like htat on paper...nice!

[Kitiara]

Thank you very much, everyone. :)

Someone requested a larger version, so here it is full size...

http://images.deviantart.com/large/indyart/anime/Not_A_Morning_Girl.gif

I think it was the Bezier pen... The one where you draw two points then get the little handles to curve it? I used that. :) And the Tapered Round brush, at 10 and 5% thickness. :)

And Unflux, it <i>is</i> a girl. I just suck at drawing faces. :P

[iLikePie]

thanks for the full version kit, that's soo cool

and it's definitely a girl (if you know what i mean :thumb: )

sounds like the bezier tool to me, and that makes it even more impressive imo, because i think it's a hard tool to use well, especially with such flowing curves (no pun intended)

did you start from scratch or was there a pencil sketch in there somewhere?

anyway, it's so cool :A+:
Stuart

[Kitiara]

God, I couldn't do that from scratch! I <i>wish</i>! Pretty much everything I do is from sketches beforehand that are scanned in and traced. :) Although I've got a Wacom at work now, so I can draw straight in.

That pen is a bit awkward though... I was trying to join up two lines in a point, and it kept making the whole thing into a 'U' shape instead of a 'V'. :angry: Kept having to make new layers then group it. :sure:

Thanks for the comments though, much appreciated. :)

[Demonia]

That looks absolutely marvelous. Have you used Corel Draw by any chance - cause I was wondering how u find it vs Illustrator...

D :P

[Kitiara]

I can't say I've ever used it to be honest. I've only really used Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash to draw with. :)

[Starpromo]

thats is really really good.

its the best line art ive seen from you. but with anything that there every was there needs to be improvments... maybe its just me being picky but the hand need work and maybe the feet do to.

only trying to be constructive. but really that is great.

[Kitiara]

No probs, any comments are always appreciated. :)

I know I've got a terrible track record with hands and feet. They always come out looking like they've been broken and stuck on or something. :P That's why I try not to draw them too often. :)

I'm going to attempt to colour this tonight. Maybe I ought to give her a face as well...

[Starpromo]

im glad, you like critism...

i like finding things in peoples work that would make it so much better if it was changed.

i cant wait to see any adjustments... BUT im still likeing what you have now.

[Kitiara]

It's making the changes that's the difficult bit. :)

Heh, I might stick her foot under the sheet. :P

[Soul]

I think it looks good without colour, thats the style :)

- Soul :s:

[Kitiara]

:love:

How about a face?

[Starpromo]

well do the changes to the face and everything you planned on doing. then we can see which one we really do like the best...
i think thats a good idea...

now go... shu... get started :)

[Kitiara]

:P You sound like my boss. :)

[Starpromo]

thats because.... I AM YOUR BOSS...

muhahahaha...

[Kitiara]

Eep.

I'm not on the Net all day at work, honestly. This is just er... research. Yeah. Research. :)

[Starpromo]

haha nice excuse...

i just used that on the prowling(sp?) lady who asks weird questions all the time...

i said me replying to this is very important info gathering

[Kitiara]

Absolutely. :)

I remember when I was in 6th form and we installed Doom on the network. Whenever the IT teacher came into the room, every PC experienced a 'power surge' and simultaneously reset.

Strange that. :)

[Starpromo]

haha, yeah thats a classic... still used in this day and age...

although i prefer the shift + tab method...

anymore dodging techniques?

[Kitiara]

Several, all the product of a mis-spent youth. :beam:

1. Whilst gaming, post a willing stooge as a lookout and get him to yell at the approach of anything resembling a teacher.

2. Again whilst gaming, select a kamikaze to waylay the teacher as soon as he enters, giving you time to get anything incriminating off your screen.

3. At Christmas (and you'll need to be near a plug socket for this), decorate your monitor with fairy lights and tinsel. Set up a miniature Christmas tree. Arrange cards. I did this during my A Levels, and the teacher branded me 'eccentric'.

4. Discover message sending facility. Utilise.

Happy days. :) Another favourite was the end of summer term special... This involved a huge water fight outside and my regretting wearing anything lycra as my clothes shrank. I ended up going home in some blokes' jeans and T-Shirt. I have no idea what he went home wearing. :P

[Starpromo]

haha

hhhmmm kit in lycra... haha

so on the right breast of the woman is that a nipple i can see poking the sheet or is it just a well placed crease?

[Kitiara]

Crease!

[Starpromo]

right... :)

[mariofan]

kit, that is amazing - and dont you dare colour it, the style would be gone if you did!

*mariofan bows down to kit, then goes to draw some new stuff!*

:m:

[Soul]

Mario agrees with me! :beam:

- Soul :s:

[Kitiara]

You are most wise. :love:

Though I might sneakily try and colour it, just to see if I can actually manage it... :)

[GARRETTDESIGN]

That's way awesome. All done in illust.? Good job. A bigger version would be nice though? please?

[iLikePie]

um garrett, that WAS the bigger size... if you look, the first one kit posted was a smaller version, then she put the original up by popular demand...

i guess it could be scaled up though

[Kitiara]

I guess I can make it a bit bigger... Will have to do that tonight though, since it's on my home PC not my work one. :)

Lucky it's a vector. :)

[Soul]

Is she based on you? :bad:

- Soul :s:

[Kitiara]

Yeah, kinda. :) I'm my own model. :beam:

[Soul]

How about no sheet next time? :evil::beam:

- Soul :s:

[Kitiara]

:blush: :love:

On a public board? :)

Forgot to try and colour this last night, oops. :sure:

[Soul]

Fine then! Just pm me it! :bad:

- Soul :s:

[Kitiara]

Smart alec. :)

[Soul]

:love:

[chris9902]

great work KIT!

try black and white shades then it's art and not Purvey:thumb:

[tsavo]

That is awesome! I have no Idea how to use illustrator that way! How long did this take u?!
very nice work!!

tsavo

[Kitiara]

Originally posted by chris9902
try black and white shades then it's art and not Purvey:thumb: Heh, it's already art. Tasteful art. :P

This took a good couple of hours to do altogether. But remember it was drawn on paper first, then traced over in Illustrator. I wasn't going from scratch with it. :)

[chris9902]

just remember

black and white = ART
colour = ****

;)

[Kitiara]

I'll bear that in mind. :P

[GloryBe]

I've been preaching this forever it seems, Illustrator is such a great drawing program.

Great drawing kit, looks great. If you have problems importing it into flash.............if you want to??.............just throw it in Freehand first, then to flash, all in RGB of course.

thats how i draw everything, using illustrator. But i've mumbled enough

good work is what i came to write lol

[Kitiara]

Thank you. :)

I'm just waking up to how cool Illustrator really is. Now I've taken the time to look at it properly... :)

[iLikePie]

i think with illustrator, even though a lot of the functions aren't very useful when actually doing vector work, most are fairly cool, and the fact that it's GOT all the options is good in case you ever need them

and i like all the different stroke options, i think freehand also has lots

and also, i think the freehand and general vector tools are very well done, and the variable settings are the most responsive imo

[Kitiara]

Yeah, those tapered brushes are fantastic for doing this kind of manga art work. They're much better than a plain line, makes them look more hand drawn. :)