11-16-2017, 10:51 AM
Coming from the Felt thread, i want to show you all a few things i observed regarding brushes.
The goal was to make a stitch brush.
The Spoongraphics example was apparently made from an image of a real thread, but i couldnt find a good quality photo of a thread in high definition, so i made a pattern from scratch in Inkscape.
[attachment=956]
The goal was to make it into a custom brush by bevelling the vector-thread-mockup and then convert into a brush.
Wasnt sure about the size, but it appears to me, that much bigger is not better, because it gets blurry when downsized anyway.
Also i was surprised that a greyscale brush always produces partially transparent brushes (left and right in figure 1).
So i ditched the idea of a greyscale brush and used a simple b/w brush instead (middle of figure 1).
When i applied the stitches with the Size/Direction Brush Dynamic, the stitches came out in varying quality depending on the angle.
In comparison i applied the same brush as a 'Pattern Along Path' in Inkscape and the result is of course much much better.
Finally i gave both versions a Bevel.
The outer Stitch was made with Inkscape and bevelled in Gimp, the inner completely in Gimp (figure 2).
[attachment=958]
(click for bigger version)
The goal was to make a stitch brush.
The Spoongraphics example was apparently made from an image of a real thread, but i couldnt find a good quality photo of a thread in high definition, so i made a pattern from scratch in Inkscape.
[attachment=956]
The goal was to make it into a custom brush by bevelling the vector-thread-mockup and then convert into a brush.
Wasnt sure about the size, but it appears to me, that much bigger is not better, because it gets blurry when downsized anyway.
Also i was surprised that a greyscale brush always produces partially transparent brushes (left and right in figure 1).
So i ditched the idea of a greyscale brush and used a simple b/w brush instead (middle of figure 1).
When i applied the stitches with the Size/Direction Brush Dynamic, the stitches came out in varying quality depending on the angle.
In comparison i applied the same brush as a 'Pattern Along Path' in Inkscape and the result is of course much much better.
Finally i gave both versions a Bevel.
The outer Stitch was made with Inkscape and bevelled in Gimp, the inner completely in Gimp (figure 2).
[attachment=958]
(click for bigger version)