HDoowop Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Hey guys, I'm trying to figure out how to accomplish what Chi is doing in this video: More specifically, Im trying to figure how make my drawing with either the brush tool or pencil tool while still keeping the drawn object as a series of vector strokes (so in the draw persona) , and then be able to colour in different sections of the object afterwards. He starts to colour the object at the 5:50 mark. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Hi, HDoowop, From what I've seen from people asking similar questions, it appears that the way AI structures fillable areas from merged lines has no 1 to 1 match in AD. That is, each area that he colors would have to remain a separate object. Typically, One would have a Face group. Inside that, there would be individual layers for head-phones, lips, etc. The lines of the face would be objects nested inside the face outline. AFAIK, the whole thing would not be drawn at once. Setting a pen stroke style would be done by changing the pressure curve profile in the stroke dialog. I have a style category for strokes w. different kinds of tapers and weights HDoowop 1 Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDoowop Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 ahh ok ok, so I guess I'll have to take additional steps to achieve the steps in the video. If i'm using the vector brush and pencil tool, I guess I'll also have to be mindful to draw closed shapes in order to be able to fill them with coulour afterwards right? I hope we're able to get to the same way of doing things in a future update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 I couldn't quite tell if Chi overlapped all the strokes, but it seemed he did, and then merged them. So in the end, there were closed shapes. But from what little I know of AI, it allows a line to define areas on both sides, say a diagonal running from one corner of a rectangle to another. AD requires 2 vectors in the same place, on for each formed triangle. So, yes, more work, or at least one needs to approach the drawing process in a different way. HDoowop 1 Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDoowop Posted March 30, 2018 Author Share Posted March 30, 2018 Just bumping this one more time to see if anyone else uses the program in this way and can provide some suggestions on how to go about working in this way. It would be really cool to be able to draw like this and then have some type of auto close feature especially when or if AD gets released for the IpadPro, having the ability to draw completely in vector with the apple pencil would be really cool. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 On 09/03/2018 at 0:53 PM, gdenby said: I couldn't quite tell if Chi overlapped all the strokes, but it seemed he did, and then merged them. So in the end, there were closed shapes. But from what little I know of AI, it allows a line to define areas on both sides, say a diagonal running from one corner of a rectangle to another. AD requires 2 vectors in the same place, on for each formed triangle. So, yes, more work, or at least one needs to approach the drawing process in a different way. If you watch this video, he begin drawing at 4'30, and use enouth strokes to define/close each "part" he wants to color later. At 6'48, then he can dupplicate the strokes, vectorize the outlines and merge them. On AD, that's when you add a complete border for the background and you can Divide the previous merged objets from the background object, before selecting the parts you want to colorize. And you can do like him instead of using some brushes : you can create a style from some curve done with the pen tool, and use the pencil tool for drawing. The video about shading is interesting too, since it shows that we don't need to draw and fill shadows, but use many strokes to complete those parts. Thanks for sharing this ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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