Wow. I started with a custom stencil on mylar that I drew up and found that the tiny details I needed for it, I could not carve out (I tried a Dremel, a wood burner, and a stencil burner). I am an art student so I knew I had to go build vector graphics, but really had not used illustrator or any of the other freeware out there. Your tutorial is really well done. The confusion for me was whether I had to create hundreds of individual graphic files (shapes) versus having my original artwork chopped up into pieces that could be manipulated. You just saved me many hours of wasted time. Thank you.
So here is a question. I need my stencil to be VERY detailed with very small shapes (I am using it to airbrush). The stencils you demo''d were quite large. What settings would you change in illustrator to be able to get much more intricate details into my stencil? A good example would be a stencil for fish scales in a 12 x9 workspace on the cricket. Inpout greatly appreciated. Illustrator (like photoshop) tends to be relatively persnickety and hard to figure out.
I am by no means an expert in illustrator, I just kinda pick things up as I need to. Since I was coming from a scanned object, the process is more tricky for sure. If you are drawing from scratch in illustrator, I think you'll be much better off. I think it also relies heavily on the quality of the starting image if you are scanning something in, and the resolution will need to be much higher if you're talking very small details.
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Great video! Thank you!😃
Thank you too!
Wow. I started with a custom stencil on mylar that I drew up and found that the tiny details I needed for it, I could not carve out (I tried a Dremel, a wood burner, and a stencil burner). I am an art student so I knew I had to go build vector graphics, but really had not used illustrator or any of the other freeware out there. Your tutorial is really well done. The confusion for me was whether I had to create hundreds of individual graphic files (shapes) versus having my original artwork chopped up into pieces that could be manipulated. You just saved me many hours of wasted time. Thank you.
So here is a question. I need my stencil to be VERY detailed with very small shapes (I am using it to airbrush). The stencils you demo''d were quite large. What settings would you change in illustrator to be able to get much more intricate details into my stencil? A good example would be a stencil for fish scales in a 12 x9 workspace on the cricket. Inpout greatly appreciated. Illustrator (like photoshop) tends to be relatively persnickety and hard to figure out.
I am by no means an expert in illustrator, I just kinda pick things up as I need to. Since I was coming from a scanned object, the process is more tricky for sure. If you are drawing from scratch in illustrator, I think you'll be much better off. I think it also relies heavily on the quality of the starting image if you are scanning something in, and the resolution will need to be much higher if you're talking very small details.