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MAKING FACES
with push-me-pull-you vector drawing


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DIGITAL DRAWING

There are two ways of making a digital image. Painting and drawing.

When you are painting, you lay down the pixels one by one like a tapestry.

When you are vector drawing, you click and drag, push and pull to make lines, shapes and fills that are created mathematically.

You can also draw freehand using the vector process. Adobe Ideas for iPad and iPhone is a good example of a vector based freehand drawing app.

Vector lines have the advantage of being sharp and smooth at any size. They have the disadvantage of sometimes being a bit too sharp and smooth.

Digital painting and drawing are different experiences. Vector drawing with the push-me-pull-you method can feel more like sculpture than painting.

MAKING FACES

A good way of getting a handle on vector drawing

I found this an addictive pastime on my old vector-powered Pocket PC.

The object was to make as many faces as possible from just one circle and a line.

vector strokes

By duplicating, rotating and distorting two simple shapes, a circle and a line, you could make the eyes, ears and noses of all kinds of characters, and give them all kinds of expressions.

Duplicating and altering the size of the circle made the eyes and ears. Altering the line made expressions with mouth and eyebrows.

facial expression

baby face

facial expressions

happy smiley

It isn't difficult to make a face. Almost any shape with two dots and a line in the right place can be seen as a face. In fact the earliest smileys didn't even have the two dots for eyes.

Creating facial expressions can be trickier. The tiniest alteration can completely alter an expression.

Making faces with push-me-pull-you vector drawing


Drawing faces . Drawing expressions . Universal expressions . Super smiley .

Gloomy face . Angry face . Frightened face . Face game . Drawing emoticons

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