r/vectorart

I created these three character card concepts and would love to know which one you think looks the best overall — 1 or 2 ?

Feedback is always welcome!

Bookmark designs for the graphic novel series I'm making. Inspired by the icons from Monster Hunter, but if anyone knows a better classification for this sort of art, please let me know!

Customers often times send logos as pdf or svg and half the time it’s just a photo or png stuck inside. We can’t print it big and someone has to email them about it every day.

So I made https://www.vecpath.com/

Drop a file in and it tells you straight up if it’s real vector or not. :)

Every image-to-SVG converter advertises "100% accuracy," and none of them define it. I built one that actually measures it.

Vecline renders its own SVG output back to pixels with the same renderer a browser uses, and scores it against the source with SSIM, PSNR and CIEDE2000. The number you see is measured from the real output, not estimated from the settings.

What that buys you:

- On flat artwork (logos, icons, UI, screenshots, pixel art) it's bit-exact: the SVG rasterizes back to the source with zero differing pixels, in a smaller/faster file than potrace, imagetracerjs or vtracer. You can reproduce the head-to-head yourself with `npm run compare`.

- On photographs, tracing is approximation by definition, so it says so and reports how close it landed instead of claiming perfection.

- A `--lossless` mode that returns a byte-verifiable SVG or fails, never a silent near-miss.

- Cut-ready DXF with a real physical size (`--units mm --physical-width 80`) plus EPS/PDF/G-code, for the maker/CAD/laser crowd.

- PDF and Office rendering, all local.

- A zero-dependency portable core that's CI-proven to bundle for a browser at 85 KB, and an MCP server so an agent can vectorize and verify its own output.

MIT, no signup, nothing uploaded. There's a browser app that runs entirely client-side.

The part I'm most happy with is boring: because the tool measures itself, it also catches me. It has flagged three of my own README overclaims (a benchmark that was true against a wrapper but not vtracer's real binary; a "render-preserving" label that was actually a ~0.02 SSIM trade; a `convert` command that couldn't do 100 of the 121 conversions the docs advertised) and I fixed each in public. For a project whose whole pitch is "measured, not asserted," being adversarial toward its own claims is the actual feature.

Repo: https://github.com/shunyagatha/Vecline

Try it: https://vecline.xyz

npm: `npm install vecline`

Happy to answer anything about the measurement approach, the tracing internals, or where it loses (it is genuinely worse than vtracer on file size for some photos, which the README now says).

I made 2 pfps in scratch with vectors and I think they are good so I shall share them! I added proof too but I was lazy and just used the screenshots I took during making them

Some vector art

Anton

This was an old isometric room design concept I made a year or so ago. Put in a lot of work and just never shared it beyond my portfolio, so here it is! It's fully vector and made 100% in Adobe Illustrator. Will happily answer any questions.

This vector piece was part of my old portfolio. It was a re-creation of an old colored pencil artwork I had created in school. Very heavy use of Illustrator's built in "photoshop" Effects. I added images explaining the process and each step to creating the nebula in the background (At the end of all those effects, there's a "lighten" blending mode to hide the black and only shine the light of the nebula).

Gradient mesh tool was used on the clouds. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Hi everyone, 

Just came across this SVG on Wikimedia, which is based on Caillebotte’s painting Paris Street; Rainy Day. I was wondering how it was made. I really like this kind of watercolour effect, I must say.

Do you think it was drawn by hand, or is there a way to automate the process? I'd be very much interested to apply the same to other paintings.

Link to the SVG : https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Paris+Street%3B+Rainy+Day&title=Special%3AMediaSearch&type=image&filemime=svg

Link to the original painting : https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Paris+Street%3B+Rainy+Day&title=Special%3AMediaSearch&type=image