Anonymous commented at 2011-12-27 02:00:41 » #961011

This takes me back... this was the first vector trace I ever did, back in July 2007. Still have the .psd on my portable hd. I've learned a lot since then... for example, when you use the stroking-path instead of filling-enclosed-path method of drawing lineart, Photoshop offsets your brush stroke downwards and to the right .5 pixels from where you put the path with the pen tool. Why it does this mystifies me, and I don't know of any method to turn it off, so I had to move all the color layers down and right .5 pixels to compensate. Also, the colors here are shape layers instead of fills, which meant I had to rasterize them and lose the paths I'd drawn in order to apply blurs and other effects. Nowadays I do everything in paths and then fill them in when they're complete.

Also, in hindsight I didn't do a very good job with the ties on the bra, but the source material was a rather washed-out screenshot and it was hard to see what was going on there. Still like how it turned out overall.

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