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in illustrator you can go to advanced settings in image trace and click "ignore white" and you won't have the white part of the vector. Very handy hack.

I think you just helped me find my escape from my miserable 9-5 day job… I’ve always been a doodler, but I never took drawing serious. I never knew it was this easy to take a 1-3 inch drawing and make a digital illustration out of it. Seriously.. thank you so much! I’m now in the market for some good drawing classes, an iPad + Pencil, Adobe CC, and a cricut maker! Cheers to making 100% custom stickers 💪🏼😎💪🏼

Absolute quickest way to make vector from physical sketch: Adobe Capture (free app) add/take photo > Shapes (tweak settings if needed) tap bottom circle checkmark > Style (toggle Smooth) > finished. Takes under a minute for any image

That was great. Thanks for sharing that - really learnt a lot. Never thought to blur and use threshold to get that effect. One thing I found recently that might save you a few clicks: Image Trace has an option where you can 'Ignore White' in the panel. This just traces the black and gives you a transparent background. Thanks Ray! Love your work.

Beautiful hands drawing beautiful images. I love it how real you kept it. This is pretty much my workflow.

Thanks for the step-by-step process. Super helpful. Love your style!

Crazy easy and helpful! Just used this method to vectorize comic-style lineart with heavy shadowing. For anyone whose lines still don't appear smooth enough in areas by the image trace step, Object-> Path-> Simplify is a good way to iron those out.

this is one of the single most useful and instructive videos i’ve ever seen.

Really great tutorial! I really enjoy using procreate for the flexibility but it misses the quality that Photoshop and Illustrator bring. Now I know how to incorporate all three into my work flow. Thank you so much!

Ray, thank you for talking about your hacks. Love the gaussian blur added to digital line before taking it to image trace. This solves the exhaustive hunt for the smoothest vector brush issue.( I’ll do anything to avoid using the pen tool to draw! ) lol!!! Also thank you for the tip about skelly.

Great artwork! Thank you for sharing. I was surprised at its beauty. Thank you for sharing this inspiring work. I will support you.

I needed this refresher! Thanks!

THANK YOU SO MUCH you're process is such a wealth of ingenuity

Great stuff man, really helps me understand the process of sketch to vector. Keep it up!

Beautiful,nice sharing friend😃✌️

Bro your designs are sick!👊🏻

This was so nicely done and your vectors are amazing. Thanks a lot bro 🤜

Long time subscriber, always great work my man!

thank you so much! this was exactly what i was searching for. i always got frustrated when i "tried" to draw in illustrator because it is not that flexible but this seems way more easier!

Wow, Thank you for sharing! Definitely useful tactic and you made the whole progress look so easy, good luck in your work too man🤜🏼🤛🏼

Wow, Thank you for sharing! Definitely super useful!

Thanks man. This was a really awesome video. Great work gee 🔥

THANKYOU!!! This helped me so much.

It’s totally worth learning new skills cause then you get excited and confident to create

This tutorial is GOLD!!! :)

Amazing content, thank you!

Thank you for this tutorial! I was struggling for many hours before I found this video.

Maaaan, you helped me so much with this tutorial!!! I always love to draw in Procreate, and when it comes to Illustrator I don't really know how to implement those ideas/drawings. But this is so helpful, since I struggle to use illustrator tools, paths ... Thank You!! :D

Thank you so much, this was so helpful!

You saved my life this morning... just saying. THANK YOU. Jeff

It worked for my 64-bit PC. Thanks a lot.

Thanks for beautiful informative video 👏👌 Really nice drawing btw

2:49 that's what I needed, thank you!

Thanks for all of your tips! I've just been getting into producing myself for my artists and mannnnn. It's like science lmao. Thanks a ton!

wow this was great!

Thank you!! I was struggling with Autotrace and loosing my damn mind until I saw this. Love your work!!

going to go make my first soft! My first soft!! Here I go! Wish luck.

Without you, my soft wouldn't be possible.

Do you have a video on how to setup illustrator tools around the screen for basic users?

Oh my god…. You just saved me so much time……… thank you so much

Good work

thank you for the very simplistic explanation of how tNice tutorialngs work. tNice tutorials is the best explanation I have co across on you tube.

thanks a lot for sharing this

This was an amazing tutorial. Short and to the point. Thanks so much!

Sheesh this is extremely useful.

Wow what a great tutorial! Super simple way of doing it. I have a question. Once you have it vectorized in illustrater. Do you go through and simplify the shapes so there’s less anchor points throughout the image?

Amazing

love it

Hey there - I like your art & this method but was wondering if it might be easier to export as an SVG and then airdrop and go straight to Illustrator to start adding in colors if necessary? Would that work? I know you put it in photoshop to clean it up how you like it but I would think to get it vectorized first and then clean it up unless I'm thinking of it a different way Hahaha

Thank you. Is there a way to do this using apps on the iPad so that only the iPad is used?

Hi @thevectorlab may I know what u use to do the fast-forward video footage of your artwork from 4:45 - 4:53 ? Thanks!

Thanks!!!!!

Could you tell me your brush stabilizer value how much would be better to get smooth line like you ..please help

Thank you

How vital is vectorization after Procreate? I assume it is necessary for Tshirt prints but what are the beneficts? In which cases vectorization of a Procreate/ps image is necessary?

greeting sir yo are giving frree bondel can we use in comarical projetcs

Can you help me on the name of the apps you use to draw on your taplet ? 🙏

Do you need procreate to do this or can I still do it on Illustrator?

What kind of I pad do you have?

Hi had a question do you have a course ? I’m trying to learn how to make all my drawings into graph work lol I’m really good at drawing

You can also duplicate it by using Ctrl+J at photoshop, anyway good content !

hey how do you select same fill color before deleting?

How did you get your lines so straight

Can you only do the second part on a Macbook?

What I pad is this?

Can we just use only Procreate to make good film design for screen printing

How do you make your lines and curves so clean perfect ? Mine end up looking squiggly instead of clean . Any advice ?

if I have a drawing how much would you charge to make it look cleaner with no pencil marka

the man

Hey you do great work.. can you please make a simple logo for me?

what ipad is this?

What are your top 5 fonts you use?

TNice tutorials video is a great introduction to soft soft for beginners. I would Nice tutorialghly recomnd tNice tutorials tutorial to anyone starting out with soft soft.

How can make the files to dxf?

Where is a tracer where u can have different images to make one collage image.....that's what I'm looking for. Like project images on a big tracing tablet instead of printing multiple images to save paper

I have a very detailed piece of hand drawn artwork that I commissioned someone to create for me. It is a wonky, Salvador Dali-ish floral composition. What software should I use to scan it in with a very high resolution in order for me to prepare the drawing for applying color to it in different colorways. the artwork was drawn on a 15x24 piece of paper. Please contact me as soon as possible.

i really need your help

Start from @2:53 if you're in a hurry

So, this wasn't literally a conversion using software to convert a pencil sketch into a vector graphic. You still had to re-draw/trace over the original sketch. (I thought this would show software, like Illustrator, to vectorize.)

what kind of paper is that ? and do you need the other paper beneath the thin paper?

How do you convert drawings into vector (without ipad)? With an ipad its really nothing special.

Did you mention that you’re using Illustrator on pc

Anyone can do that. The big deal is how to vectorize a lineart without drawing it freehand. Now where do I find a tutorial on that?

I need someone to do this for me .. I don’t know their title… how could I search a person to do this ?

That’s pretty metal lol

4000 pixels? :) I usually set it to 300 for printing. Oh man, if I'd put it at 4000px, my pc would freeze, in fact, the whole galaxy would. lol

This is not a conversion but you just manually draw over a sketch.

The sketch looks like it’s from Smoxd

are your sketches available as NFTs?

nice video unfortunately this only works if you have an IPAD to facilitate the drawing process

Hey, anyone here who could help me with vectorizing a sketch? Please drop a comment so that I could personally connect. Thanks

@TheVectorLab can you make a personal logo for me

Thanks 🥲*sniff*

Hey,

This Is Amazing But No Use To Me, I'd Have To Buy An iPad And An Apple Pencil 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️ But I'm An Android Windows User So This Is Usless 😫

Ok but you can draw

First step - Get an ipad and mac... Me with my $300 custom setup

yeah.. "toy" skull

but had absolutely no problems to follow Nice tutorials words. You don't have to understand all of tNice tutorials in 10 seconds, just take one step, stop the