Comments on: Weekly Vector Inspiration #55 http://vectips.com/inspiration/weekly-vector-inspiration-55/ Illustrator® tips, tricks, and tutorials Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:02:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Adnan http://vectips.com/inspiration/weekly-vector-inspiration-55/comment-page-1/#comment-82447 Adnan Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:17:31 +0000 http://vectips.com/?p=3634#comment-82447 paul is absolutely the luckiest psychic paul is absolutely the luckiest psychic

]]> By: Esz http://vectips.com/inspiration/weekly-vector-inspiration-55/comment-page-1/#comment-55021 Esz Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:41:50 +0000 http://vectips.com/?p=3634#comment-55021 Oh I dont blame YOU specifically for putting the art up there - its great that it incites discussion. :-D I totally agree with you on both the autotrace and the gradient mesh work being rather unimaginative. The way I see it, you can become very skilled at tracing and have a good technical ability but what makes you an artist is being able to create something from your MIND and come up with things YOURSELF. I see many many 'artists' on DeviantArt who are immensely popular but all they are doing is copying other people's photos in different mediums. I wouldn't call that art. So I'm definitely in the creativity is king camp :-D Oh I dont blame YOU specifically for putting the art up there – its great that it incites discussion. :-D

I totally agree with you on both the autotrace and the gradient mesh work being rather unimaginative.
The way I see it, you can become very skilled at tracing and have a good technical ability but what makes you an artist is being able to create something from your MIND and come up with things YOURSELF.
I see many many ‘artists’ on DeviantArt who are immensely popular but all they are doing is copying other people’s photos in different mediums. I wouldn’t call that art.
So I’m definitely in the creativity is king camp :-D

]]> By: Cheryl http://vectips.com/inspiration/weekly-vector-inspiration-55/comment-page-1/#comment-54748 Cheryl Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:24:30 +0000 http://vectips.com/?p=3634#comment-54748 What I can never understand us why these guys use their awesome mesh skills (and countless hours) to reproduce someone else's photo. I guess it's the closest they're ever going to get to Angelina Jolie - haha! What I can never understand us why these guys use their awesome mesh skills (and countless hours) to reproduce someone else’s photo. I guess it’s the closest they’re ever going to get to Angelina Jolie – haha!

]]> By: Morten FC http://vectips.com/inspiration/weekly-vector-inspiration-55/comment-page-1/#comment-54725 Morten FC Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:25:35 +0000 http://vectips.com/?p=3634#comment-54725 I think working with photorealism in Illustrator defeats the purpose of the program. When you make something that intricate and detailed you get a file that's difficult to manage and isn't that lightweight anymore. And no matter how much time you put into it, it always shows somewhere. The Angelina Jolie, for example, is masterly executed but it's still obvious that the skin is off and the pants look plasticy.I feel the same way with oil-paintings portraying photorealism. If it's supposed to look like a photo, go with the photo. It's a difficult medium to master anyway. I feel creativety and originality is more important. I think working with photorealism in Illustrator defeats the purpose of the program. When you make something that intricate and detailed you get a file that’s difficult to manage and isn’t that lightweight anymore. And no matter how much time you put into it, it always shows somewhere. The Angelina Jolie, for example, is masterly executed but it’s still obvious that the skin is off and the pants look plasticy.I feel the same way with oil-paintings portraying photorealism. If it’s supposed to look like a photo, go with the photo. It’s a difficult medium to master anyway.
I feel creativety and originality is more important.

]]> By: Paul http://vectips.com/inspiration/weekly-vector-inspiration-55/comment-page-1/#comment-54723 Paul Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:53:29 +0000 http://vectips.com/?p=3634#comment-54723 cool, Antonella looks great! nice round up! cool, Antonella looks great! nice round up!

]]> By: Rype http://vectips.com/inspiration/weekly-vector-inspiration-55/comment-page-1/#comment-54715 Rype Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:52:27 +0000 http://vectips.com/?p=3634#comment-54715 It wasn't my intention to mislead anyone by posted the images of egba94 in question. When I looked at the close up of the vector images of egba94, they did not seem like gradient meshes but pretty much a really nice autotrace like Esz talked about above. But I am glad people are writing about their concerns. When I have posted realistic vectors in the past, they seemed very popular, but I personally don't like the realistic gradient mesh work. I think of them as pointless and unoriginal. Still I decided to post the images… I guess I wanted to see what people thought. I wanted to see if they liked this polished auto trace just as much as some of the highly skilled gradient mesh vectors. Because in my opinion, they are not that different. Sure it take a lot more skill to create some of the highly intricate gradient meshes compared to pressing an auto-trace button, but aren't they just the same thing, a derivative of the original photo? Where is the creativity it that. Granted, some of the popular gradient-mesh vector artist use their own original sourced photos and compositions to create their vectors and I can understand the need for the flexible vector format but I am not impressed. Just because it took over 60 hours to create it doesn't make it that impressive to me. So for those of you who are mad about these images, are you just made because egba94 didn't put the work in? Or is it something else? I think it' fun to discuss these topics, It reminds me of my college art class days. Whenever we would have class critiques, there are the artist that believe skill is everything and there are those that believe creativity and composition are everything. Which are you? It wasn’t my intention to mislead anyone by posted the images of egba94 in question. When I looked at the close up of the vector images of egba94, they did not seem like gradient meshes but pretty much a really nice autotrace like Esz talked about above. But I am glad people are writing about their concerns. When I have posted realistic vectors in the past, they seemed very popular, but I personally don’t like the realistic gradient mesh work. I think of them as pointless and unoriginal.

Still I decided to post the images…

I guess I wanted to see what people thought. I wanted to see if they liked this polished auto trace just as much as some of the highly skilled gradient mesh vectors. Because in my opinion, they are not that different. Sure it take a lot more skill to create some of the highly intricate gradient meshes compared to pressing an auto-trace button, but aren’t they just the same thing, a derivative of the original photo? Where is the creativity it that. Granted, some of the popular gradient-mesh vector artist use their own original sourced photos and compositions to create their vectors and I can understand the need for the flexible vector format but I am not impressed. Just because it took over 60 hours to create it doesn’t make it that impressive to me.

So for those of you who are mad about these images, are you just made because egba94 didn’t put the work in? Or is it something else?

I think it’ fun to discuss these topics, It reminds me of my college art class days. Whenever we would have class critiques, there are the artist that believe skill is everything and there are those that believe creativity and composition are everything. Which are you?

]]> By: OllieJ http://vectips.com/inspiration/weekly-vector-inspiration-55/comment-page-1/#comment-54712 OllieJ Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:39:23 +0000 http://vectips.com/?p=3634#comment-54712 What really pisses me off is that Vectips posted it as part of their weekly inspiration without bothering to validate its authenticity, and passively encouraging the person's misleading methods. What really pisses me off is that Vectips posted it as part of their weekly inspiration without bothering to validate its authenticity, and passively encouraging the person’s misleading methods.

]]> By: Peach http://vectips.com/inspiration/weekly-vector-inspiration-55/comment-page-1/#comment-54706 Peach Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:08:20 +0000 http://vectips.com/?p=3634#comment-54706 Great post. Very inspiring! Great post. Very inspiring!

]]> By: Johan http://vectips.com/inspiration/weekly-vector-inspiration-55/comment-page-1/#comment-54531 Johan Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:27:55 +0000 http://vectips.com/?p=3634#comment-54531 Yeah it sucks Yeah it sucks

]]> By: hoshimo http://vectips.com/inspiration/weekly-vector-inspiration-55/comment-page-1/#comment-54510 hoshimo Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:24:11 +0000 http://vectips.com/?p=3634#comment-54510 great showcase as usual :) i especially love the glassy vibrancy of the octopus dream. gotta love blending modes! great showcase as usual :) i especially love the glassy vibrancy of the octopus dream. gotta love blending modes!

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