This week’s blog won’t be quite so informative, I’ve been kept very busy again (my time has been divided between band, family and friends, and being on hideously disgusting antibiotics), so I’ve had very little time to devote to Graphics Girl – however – I have gotten around to doing quite a few odd bits and bobs: you can now find any updates relevant to the site on both Twitter and YouTube! The channel is fairly new, but be sure to subscribe for all upcoming tutorials and time lapses.

Which leads me quite nicely onto my next point; I’ve finally gotten around to creating my first time lapse video. Following An Introduction to Vector Art, I thought it best to do something simplistic and fairly straight-forward in Inkscape to kick things off with, just to demonstrate a typical process before I piece together a tutorial. So, here, Internet, have a free, pointlessy cute little vector duckie:

This took about 25-30 minutes originally, for those who are interested. I had a whole bunch of problems trying to navigate my way around Camtasia initially, so the clip does end rather abruptly, but I’m hoping it gets the point across all the same. Mainly just using (abusing, if you will) the pen tool, with gradients, scaling, and gaussian blur. I’ll be covering all this in a comprehensive video tutorial sometime next week (I’m aiming for Saturday the 23rd of August), schedule permitting! Starting from scratch and in ecruciating detail, so anyone can follow along. Then at some point I’ll progress onto how to produce vector art from a photograph, since once you’ve mastered the basics in Inkscape, this should be far easier!