I’m Jacob Thomas

When i first started to read about web and its related designs, I was not aware of such a branch of design, people just love to see. There is no proper definition for vector art as such (not even in Wikipedia). Let me attempt on one. Its yet another world far away from the reality itself, with minuscule details of a real life entities wiped off with importance given only to one and one thing alone, BEAUTY.

My first contact with anime (Inuyasha,i suppose!) saw a slight reluctance from my part to accept the style of art (Huge eyes were a main cause). Later i realized that it was a totally different form of artwork from the conventional one. The exaggerated features of a manga art were later accepted by me with a renewed craziness. Yes i know, anime is not vector art. My first contact with vector came with deviantART.Oh! amazing. Beauty galore!!

I was reading through one of its members’ journal.[http://vbu.deviantart.com/] Boy! all we need to know about vector art!

I understood a few things now from his journal.

Vector Art is a technique, not a style. Perhaps a better term for the category would be ” vector-based art,” meaning art created in a vector-based program.

Vector is not a ” style” like anime, but a “medium” like charcoal. Asking what vector-art looks like is like asking what an oil painting looks like. It could look like Rembrandt, Picasso or a 5th grader. (A very talented 5th grader!)

Just because something is “cell shaded” or “flat colored” does NOT MAKE IT A VECTOR. The CUTOUT filter creates a raster-based image and thus is disqualified from ever being considered a vector image.

Not that i believe this is the definition for vector art but his statements are mostly true. Now then a few samples from heruka’s gallery.

Thats some classic example of vector art produced with Illustrator and Photoshop.

There are magazines dedicated to showcasing some of the finest vector masterpieces.Some of them are Vectorika, Kromag, Artzmania, and many many more ‘download’able issues from pdf-mags.

On a personal note i would suggest browsing through some fabulous vector art by Jeremy Prasatik .

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