Need help with Pen Tool

[Inês]

Hello,

Need help with Pen Tool.

Is there any tool that identifies the drawing and turns it into a vector by itself?

I can't get my vector to be exactly the same as the drawing

What is the best way to do it ???? :)

[v_kyr]

33 minutes ago, Inês said:

Is there any tool that identifies the drawing and turns it into a vector by itself?

Well there are bitmap-to-vector tracers/vectorization tools, but what they can generate always also highly depends on an image's quality/color tonals etc. you throw them on. In your case that bitmap background image looks pretty dark and thus would probably need some customizations so it can be traced in some useful manner! - Other than that, you can finetune and better adjust what you've already traced there manually via the help of the Node tool.

You should give either way a try, in order to see what works best for you here!

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Inês said:

I can't get my vector to be exactly the same as the drawing

It may be impossible to get it exactly like the image but you should be able to get close if using the Node Tool you add more nodes & carefully adjust their positions & handles to more closely follow the contours in the image.

[William Overington]

3 hours ago, R C-R said:

It may be impossible to get it exactly like the image but you should be able to get close if using the Node Tool you add more nodes & carefully adjust their positions & handles to more closely follow the contours in the image.

It is very useful for some projects to use the Transform panel to position each node precisely,  especially if one sets the measurement units to be pixels.

View

Studio

Transform

Click to get a tick thus thereby showing it is on. If it is already ticked but the Transform panel is not showing, untick then use the sequence again to tick it on.

The Transform panel can be dragged away from its default position amongst other items.

On a separate aspect, if

View

Show Context Toolbar

is ticked, 

then each node of the drawing produced using the Pen Tool can be set as one of several types.

I tend to firstly draw shapes using straight lines, as if sides of a polygon, then use the

Convert to Smooth mode (by clicking on the toolbar logo while in node mode with the node selected) facility to remove the sharp corners.

This can be done, if so desired, one node at a time, so one can choose to smooth some corners yet not others.

It is possible, if so desired, to convert every node of a drawing to become a smooth mode all at once by, in Node Mode, selecting one node then using Control A on the keyboard and then choosing Convert to Smooth.

William