You can see how it looks with the outline only, without fills on the left, and using fills on the right. Use the tool that makes you feel more comfortable drawing, or even use both! The Pen is more of a “free drawing” tool, while the Bezigon can help you achieve perfect curves. In the case of the photo we chose, the main parts are the face, hair, blouse, arms, neck, the table and the background.Ĭhoosing to using the Pen or Bezigon is entirely up to you. What you will do now is basically outline the major “pieces” of the picture with the Pen or Bezigon. Let’s start with the base shapes of the portrait. There are many different approaches, techniques and styles for creating a vector portrait, or any illustration for that matter, but in this tutorial we will use one particular style and follow a particular way. If not, check our tutorials and our User Guide to learn the tricks on using Gravit Designer’s drawing tools. If you have already mastered those, go ahead!
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Dominating the basic drawing toolsįor the rest of this tutorial, it’s necessary to have a good notion of how to use the main drawing tools, the Pen and Bezigon. The easiest way, though, is to drag the image directly from your computer folder to Gravit’s canvas. To do that, you can use the Place Image option on the toolbar button, or go to menu File > Import > Place image. With the document ready, it’s time to import the image you chose previously to Gravit’s canvas. To do that, leave the Width and Height fields empty and click “Create!”. To get started, open Gravit Designer and create a new document with an Infinite Canvas to have plenty of space to work. It’s a beautiful portrait with good light and contrast, and some accessories as interesting details. This is the image we will use for this tutorial.
Least but not last, it’s preferable to use a high quality picture because you might zoom in and out a lot. If you need to remove a distracting background, see our tutorial on removing the background from an image. Look for something not only good looking, but also with good lighting, contrast (which will make your work a lot easier, as you will see later) and nice details. The final result will depend greatly on the kind of picture you choose. In this tutorial we will shed some light on how to create a vector portrait based on a picture. It does, however, require a good amount of time and patience. Transforming a beautiful portrait into a vector illustration is a fun task that doesn’t require outstanding drawing skills and can give you a great final piece of design.