Many OWC customers are impacted, including creative professionals like photographers, illustrators, and graphic designers. It's like autotracing the screen image.COVID-19 has dramatically changed the way millions of people work. Inkscape's paint bucket fills only to the stroke edge and does it in screen resolution. It doesn't care the stroke width, it uses the midline. Illustrator's Shape Builder is far more developed. This can be good enough, but it isn't exact. The ends must be often moved onto the next curve except if you start on an already drawn curve. There the stroke should be quite narrow and snap on path should be ON. Using Wacom or other tablet you draw nearly as fast as onto paper. Use heavy smoothing to get only a few nodes. Open curves can be drawn fast with the pencil tool. Unfortunately I do not know, how well it works in other vector drawing programs. It has been still quite useful, if the filled area is zoomed in to big size at first. Inkscape has one too, but it works in screen resolution. Illustrator has it (= the shape builder) and it's precise. A fast way to draw is to use open curves and fill the areas with a paint bucket. Not asked: If you are going to draw plenty of new images in that style, not only trace a few old images, you have a little underpowered tool. I guess it would be far easier to leave the separate extra paths, only group them with the outline to keep all together. This is much extra work if you have many hands to draw. You probably must adjust a little the handles at the ends of the fingers. Do not drag handles, the curve moves quite loyally. I assume you have got something like this before adding the extra lines:ĭrag the corner point between the fingers to the other end of the line between the fingers and insert nodes to half way of both generated V branchesĭrag the new nodes to the same point they should snap. Of course you can convert the paths themselves to filled areas and make an union, but they become practically uneditable. The branch must be a separate path or it must be forth-back. Seven: Remove the stroke from this curve, and fill and apply transparency as you prefer for the final effect, and in my case I closed the curve along the wrist to control the wrist bump in the fill - I didn't have to do this - Affinity Designer will happily fill unclosed curves.Įight: Now unhide your original drawn curves of the entire hand, having assured that this group is higher in the draw order in the Layers Palette than the whole hand fill we just constructed, and you're good-to-go!Īt first: There's no such thing as closed path with a single stroke side branch. You will then see your curves joined into one.Ĭontinue this for all the curves in the exterior contour of the hand. Select both the contour curves (in my case the thumb and the wristline curves) and select Join Curves - note you don't need to select the specific nodes at which they connect, and in fact they don't have to perfectly touch - just have both curves selected and it'll work well. Six: Delete the extraneous curve portion (the interior curve of the base of the thumb in this case). Three: Copy-paste these outside the group, hide the group in the Layers Palette.įour: By left-clicking on a curve with the Node Tool (white arrow) add anchor-nodes where those lines intersect.įive: Then, with that node still selected, click on Break Curve in the tool-dependent area of the menubar (break, join etc only show up when you have a curve selected and are using the Node Tool) to break the curve at that node. Double click into that group, select only those curves which (partially) form the outline of the hand against space, excluding any lines which only delineate internal details. In my case using an old Wacom Intuous graphics tablet, pressure feeding stroke width. One: draw the cartooney hand, using the Vector Brush tool, with independent lines for each curve as one would normally draw or sketch. It appears far longer written than it is in practise: to draw this hand, with screencaps for documenting the process took me less than a minute. I'll tackle this in the most straightforward manner in Affinity Designer with a workflow which goes from how one naturally draws such a hand to the desired end result, quite quickly.
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