#vector 101

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Here’s to a productive Monday morning ♡

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How I do my vectors (a step by step guide)

For the keyboard part, I just grabbed a photo on google and place it on top of the keyboard shape. As requested by an anon, here is a step by step guide on how I do my vector art. I just chose an easy one and you can do this in less than 30 mins :-) It’s very easy and simple to do guys I swear.

Softwares needed: Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop

First, choose your reference photo and open it in Adobe Illustrator

Lock the layer and create a new one. By using the pen tool, trace each item one by one and use your reference photo as your base guide. 

I try to hide the original photo from time to time and sometimes don’t fill in the colors immediately or hide them first so I can see thoroughly what I’m tracing. 

Open a new file in Adobe Photoshop. My usual size is 8in x 8in, 300 px. And transfer your traced vector there. 

For the keyboard part, I just grabbed a photo on google and place it on top of the grey keyboard shape that I traced on illustrator. 

And then I have stocked textures, you can choose any textures you like for the background. I’m using a marbled one.

To add other elements, if I’m lazy, I usually go to freepik.com and grab some ready made vector items. Or sometimes I make one from also tracing other stock photos. 

I usually put another texture on top of my work so you may also do that and then choose Soft Light or Overlay and adjust the opacity accordingly. 

I also add some drop shadow with my vector traced layers sometimes.

Here’s a before with the original photo and after when it is already vectored. :-)

So there you go guys, I hope you liked this and learned something from it. It’s very easy to do and you can try it out yourself :-)

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My artworks depicts the opposite of what’s really going through my head. Maybe that’s the reason why I’m so drawn to doing clean and minimalist type of aesthetic. My head is kind of messed up, a little complicated and has a lot of things going on where as my artworks tend to be more organized looking and simple. My art saves me all the time, it is my refuge. It keeps me calm and relaxed and just clears my head. 

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Last working day of the week.

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Hustlin’ on a Friday, gotta keep going. Good morning.

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I’m back to work today. 

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