User talk:Jeromi Mikhael/Archives/2018/September
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Coat of arms of Tallinn in the Estonian SSR[edit]
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Tom-L (talk) 08:36, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
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- Minsk. Tom-L (talk) 17:00, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
Conversation from the Illustration Workshop[edit]
I didn't want to clutter up the workshop with our conversation, so I copied it here.
- @TilmannR: Wow! Since when do you learn vector graphics? I downloaded Inkscape in just 9 months ago.--Jeromi Mikhael (talk) 14:31, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Jeromi Mikhael: I don't remember when I started using Inkscape. I'm not a professional artist, so I've only been using it regularly since I started doing Illustration Workshop requests. TilmannR (talk) 15:01, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
- @TilmannR: Do you think you can compare yourself to Sodacan? In ocialist heraldry, I think you are one of the best.--Jeromi Mikhael (talk) 15:03, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Jeromi Mikhael: I don't personally know Sodacan, but he seems to be very experienced and has contributed plenty of great images to the Commons. If you want to become better at vectorizing emblems, I recommend trying to resolve some of your own requests. Practice makes perfect.
TilmannR (talk) 16:49, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Jeromi Mikhael: I don't personally know Sodacan, but he seems to be very experienced and has contributed plenty of great images to the Commons. If you want to become better at vectorizing emblems, I recommend trying to resolve some of your own requests. Practice makes perfect.
- @TilmannR: When I try to do one..., the result is awful. The best one is that.Another one is those.--Jeromi Mikhael (talk) 16:51, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Jeromi Mikhael: Coat of arms of Himalayan Union.svg looks fine. LogoKPT.svg is great for practicing. Ask yourself: What's wrong with that image? Focus on a specific flaw and try to fix it. (E.g. there's a notch in the bottom left of the flag. What can you do to make the path smoother?) Then find the next flaw and fix that. Of course you can't see how much work Sodacan or I put into our images, so it might seem like we just have some magical talent or secret knowledge, but that's not true. Nobody makes everything perfect on the first try. The beautiful thing about SVGs is that you can always fix things. Nothing is final. And the only way to become better and faster at making graphics is to put effort in it, to never give up and practice, practice, practice. (And learn all important features of Inkscape either by experimenting or by reading manuals and tutorials online, but I hope it's obvious that you need to know your tools in order to use them effectively.) TilmannR (talk) 05:01, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
- @TilmannR: Dang. I would put your conversation in my room and will frame it.
- @Jeromi Mikhael: Coat of arms of Himalayan Union.svg looks fine. LogoKPT.svg is great for practicing. Ask yourself: What's wrong with that image? Focus on a specific flaw and try to fix it. (E.g. there's a notch in the bottom left of the flag. What can you do to make the path smoother?) Then find the next flaw and fix that. Of course you can't see how much work Sodacan or I put into our images, so it might seem like we just have some magical talent or secret knowledge, but that's not true. Nobody makes everything perfect on the first try. The beautiful thing about SVGs is that you can always fix things. Nothing is final. And the only way to become better and faster at making graphics is to put effort in it, to never give up and practice, practice, practice. (And learn all important features of Inkscape either by experimenting or by reading manuals and tutorials online, but I hope it's obvious that you need to know your tools in order to use them effectively.) TilmannR (talk) 05:01, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
Of course you can't see how much work Sodacan or I put into our images, so it might seem like we just have some magical talent or secret knowledge, but that's not true. Nobody makes everything perfect on the first try. The beautiful thing about SVGs is that you can always fix things. Nothing is final. And the only way to become better and faster at making graphics is to put effort in it, to never give up and practice, practice, practice.