The mighty Hulk. Vector!

[LilleMartin]

http://www.martinjacobsen.no/grafikk/hulk.gif

Hey kids! Are you getting harassed at school because you are computer geeks who like surfing Kirupa better than playing football?
Remember, Bruce Banner was a geek to, and then he became the Mighty Hulk because he had a geek job involving complicated stuff.

The next time those nasty kids come around to beat the living daylights out of you. just show them this badge, and tell them that they better watch out when you become a horrible green thing thanks to the radiation you get in your geek job. :)

Err... Okay, so maybe I've been sitting by this computer too long...
Anyway... New vector thing. :)

-M

[nobody]

WOW!!!
I really really like that

[asphaltcowboy]

wow! nice work! great style!

[nobody]

Not to be annoying or anything.. but it looks like it goes straight from his shoulders to his forearms.. I might be lookin at it wrong though

still looks great

[LilleMartin]

Thanks you guys. :)

XXVIII (28?): I guess what you see as the shoulders are the biceps. He's sort of hunching his shoulders up, so the area between the head and the bicep is the shoulder...
Or that's how I see it, anyway. :)

-M

[mdipi]

omgosh! that thing looks soooo good! i love it! what proggi?

[nobody]

28 it is ;)
Yarrrhhhh now I see it, lol, sorry
Amazin peice

[LilleMartin]

Wow... My flabber is ghasted.

Thanks for the kind words people. :) The vector app of my choice is Adobe Illustrator, mdipi. :)

-M

[mdipi]

i still dont get how to use that app lol, tryed it and glad i havent bought it, i donon, just couldnt get the hang of it.

[LilleMartin]

mdipi: I want you to listen very carefully now: Get yourself Illustrator!
It's friggin great. :) And you can make graphics for flash in it that adds almost no bytes at all to the filesize beacause Flash utilizes vectors as well.

-M

[nobody]

I want it too.. I'm dying to get into vector.. but my Tiny brain just can't do it for some reason

[mdipi]

well i never used the trial, i borrowed the whole thing from someone but it never really worked, it always would crash...i donno why?

[mdipi]

hey! freehand is vector,and i have freehand...w00t!

[LilleMartin]

Guys. Vector isn't really difficult. Look at it. It's completely clean areas of color. I'm betting what you dread is the Pen. The Bezier curves, right? It just takes a wee bit of traning and you'll be all set up, because once you understand the pen, vectors are your friends. :)

-M

[nobody]

I don't understand the pen.. I don't like the pen

<marquee width="100" behavior="alternate">the pen is evil</marquee>

[LilleMartin]

There, there... The pen is your friend. The pen wants what's best for you. The pen will take care of you. Listen to the pen. Niiiiice pen. Mmmmm... Create yummy crisp vectors-Pen. Mmmmmm...

-M

[nobody]

lol
i need to take some tutorials on the "nice" pen

[mdipi]

yes me too. but otherwise i am willing to learn o vector great one

[eyeinfinitude]

haha that's cool, that's how the Hulk would look like if he was a guest on Dextor's Laboratory or the Power Puff Girls. :P

[LilleMartin]

Yup. :)

And guys... One more bit of motivation for you to learn vectors. As flash guys, you'll see the benefit here. :)

I just exported the image from Illustrator and saved it as a swf for my portfolio. The filesize was 6 kb, and then it acts like an ordinary group of shapes in flash and can be converted to a MC or Graphic symbol for further fun. Try that on with a bitmap. ;)

-M

[nobody]

I get how useful they are, I just can't make them;'(

[mdipi]

same here, ahh, i donno, i will still with freehand!

[bleutuna]

Cute :thumb:

:pope:

[iLikePie]

there's nothing wrong with freehand anyway, because it's still vector, it's just that a lot of people believe Illy is the best...

and i really like the pic too :), you've chosen a good angle to work from
Stuart

[Kitiara]

The pen is alright when you get the hang of it. :) I've found that Illustrator is better for drawing some styles because of the range of brushes you have. But I still like drawing in Flash for some things.

Nice work, very clean and sharp. :)

[LilleMartin]

I believe the difference between Illustrator and Freehand to be a matter of personal discretion. I own both applications but while I use Illustrator for **** near everything (Mock-ups, design elements, flashgraphics, illustrations) I hardly ever open Freehand. It's probably just a matter of what you get used to.

I hate drawing in flash. I can never get things the way I want them (Unless what I want is a rectangle.) and it's pen tools confuse me. :) I'm very happy about using the Illustrator/Flash Combo though.

-M

[Kitiara]

The strange thing is that when I draw in Illustrator I use the Pen tool with the tapered brushes, which is great. But when I draw in Flash, I never use the Pen, but stick with the Line tool instead, and curve them. I have no idea why this should be.

But you can get some pretty good effects with Flash, especially if you fill in then delete all the lines. This is one that I did with it a while ago. It's an oldie, but still turned out OK.

http://www.nowingsnohalo.co.uk/img/gallery_tifa.gif

I tried recreating that with Illustrator, but failed abysmally. So if anyone else wants to try, then go for it. :)

[LilleMartin]

That's a niiiiice pice Kit. :)
I might have a go at it in AI a bit later. Just to try. :)

-M

[Kitiara]

Please do. :)

I couldn't get it to look as nice with llustrator, Flash produced a much better effect. But I'd like to see if you can manage it - I freely confess I'm pretty poor with Illustrator. :)

I really like the style of your drawing though, as someone pointed out, it's very Dexter's Lab. :) I like it, it works well with the character. :)