Today I spent the entire day working on my senior thesis. My senior thesis is centered around “kawaii”, otherwise known as “cute” things. When I work with any project I like knowing that I have some flexibility with the work. If the work needs to be x3 bigger or x3 smaller, I want to be prepared for that possibility. That is why I work primarily in vectors. Vectors give me so much freedom, and they are really the only way I ink my illustrations.
It’s taken me a while to finally tweak the Illustrator settings to match with my wacom pad’s pressure sensitivity. Now that I found a way for me to ink weighted lines that are vectors I am extremely happy.
Done entirely in vectors.
Here’s an example of my vector work that I am doing for my senior show. I’m glad that I decided to work in vectors for another reason. A few weeks ago I found out my budget for actually printing this work was going to have to be cut in half. So now I can take a sigh of relief and know that the work I have made is in a format that allows me to scale it down without any negative effects. A lot of my friends swear by pixels, and maybe its because I’m a bit of a control-freak in my work, that I just have to say I’m a part of Team Vector. At least vectors can be easily converted into pixels… the other way? Not so much. ;D
