Once in a while I run across a graphic online that I can’t resist developing. The included graphic is just such a case.
The original of this graphic was a Gif. It’s dithered bitmap all but obscured subtle lines and shades that deliniate the human form. (Or, non-human in this case). Auto trace does not produce acceptable rendering. Particularly when tracing a bitmapped or pict graphic. The effect of brush or pen & ink illustration requires carefully drawn object shapes - not stroked lines. It took about four hours to carefully place each vector point by hand. It may look loose - but that’s the intention. The color version is even more striking.
Keep in mind, I create Mac and PC graphics for hier.
Since 1985, Showker Graphic Arts & Design has offered high quality, professional services to the over worked, over-stressed Macintosh/MS DOS community at very reasonable rates:
1) Logo Conversion -
Client logos converted to EPS files for use in DTP
and page layout programs. Our type is NOT download
dependent - typography will be converted to vectored
outlines so no resident fonts are required.
2) Electronic Illustration -
graphics, products and custom clip art.
3) Design Make-overs - professional help
with your publishing, printing and marketing materials.
4) Pressure Sensitive Graphics -
cut-vinyl graphics from your EPS files or ours.
5) Clip-Art Finding Service -
The graphic image you’re looking for is created specifically for the application.
Too many users waste time looking through disk after disk of clip art only to be disappointed. We maintain an archive of more than 300,000 graphic images as resource material, and nearly 700 vectored outline fonts.
