Free Vectors: Hand-drawn Decorative Ornaments II
I’m back from about a week-long hiatus, and I wanted to kick things back off with some killer freebies. This is another set of “hand-drawn” decorative ornaments. A lot of you seemed to like the first set and I enjoy making them, so I decided to crank out some more. These were hand sketched on pencil/paper then scanned and converted to vectors. They may not look like vectors, but trust me, they are. Available in EPS and SVG, as always. Preview of what’s inside after the jump.
Here’s a peek at what’s in the file:
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Nice! Welcome back. These look sweet. keep up the good work!
These are nice, I like the hand drawn look.
Thank you, these are great n_n they look like a illustration ornaments from a book XD
these look awesome (as always). thanks for sharing.
Thanks Bit! Always appreciate the hand-drawn vectors. If I ever use them on a project, I will certainly let my client know where I got ‘em!
Cool ornaments. Thanks for posting them.
Great stuff, much appreciated!
You are so talented. Thank you for these!
Great set. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks so much, Bitt! I’m going to include some of these beauties in a mural on my wall! What a talent you are…
Keep an eye out for these being used in mainstream media. They are awesome.
Very beautiful! Thank you for sharing and have a good weekend. :)
thank you so much
Cool ornaments. Thanks for posting them.
Awesomeness
Great site and thanks for the freebies! I linked this site on my blog (dcblog.net).
Excellent! these are great!! :) I have a tip regarding these (and everything else I find on the net) if you want to add some dimension.
If you select the object, then select the “Transform Tool” (E), then click and hold one of the corners of your selection, then hold the “cmd” key on Mac, and then move your curser you can add some dimension to you object, and make new variations of your object/illustration! :) It has to be in this order to work, but when you get it – it’s really cool and helpful!! (This works at least in Illustrator CS3 — possibly other versions as well)
Keep up the great work BitB!
first of all… great blog!!
so… how did you get this hand drawn sketches to be vectors? did you use any special tool? i have a lot of sketches and i would like to covert them to vectors.
thanks very much for your brushes set, i love it!
These vectors are AWESOME! Thank you so much!
Love this brush set!
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Amazing retro brushes, thx!
thanks, nice.
I don’t know who you are but you are so talented. I am in a psych class and have to do a assignment on creativity out of circles so I was researching circles and got your drawings….amazing…Pam
As a destination wedding photographer, these awesome vectors help with my wedding photography designs. Thanks for the vector files!
I’m new to this. What do I do with the EPS or SVG once I download it? I want to use it in Photoshop or Illustrator. I’ve been able to add brushes before, but I’m not figuring this out I guess.
Thanks!
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These look great! My only question is, does anyone know of a way to make vectors produced in Illustrator appear hand-drawn or hand-sketched? I’ve been looking all over for a tutorial, but no luck as of yet, except for one in web designer wall.
why are these not available in .ai? CS3 does not support .eps
thanks!! :-)
I second OSZ’s thoughts? How do you turn hand drawn items into Vector without using the live trace? Do you do something with them in PS first? I would LOVE to know how to do this for some of my own flower drawings…even though I am addicted to your freebies:)
WOW! these are really GREAT!! thank you so very much for sharing! i picked up a few other things on your WONDERFUL blog while i was here (ie leaves, florals, splatters). i LOVE visiting such a talented guy! thank you so much for allllllllll you do!! hope you have a TERRIFFIC weekend! :D
cool!thanks!
If anyone was still wondering how to convert your sketches into vector images…
1. Scan your image–the higher the quality, the better. This will ensure all your little details will remain when you Live Trace.
2. Bring your image into Photoshop. Adjust the contrast and the levels (Image –> Adjustments –> Levels or Brightness/Contrast), making sure that all your lines are extremely defined. (Not so much that you lose lines in your sketch, but very dark. Don’t worry if it’s not smooth–Live Trace will smooth it all out.)
3. While your in Photoshop, check to see if there are any spare black marks or tracings that you need to get rid of. Erase those.
4. Leave your image the size it is, don’t adjust that at all, and copy and paste your image into Illustrator.
5. Now, when you Live Trace because your image was so large and you took the time to adjust levels and contrast you should get that hand drawn, sketchy look.
6. Expand and Ungroup your image, and get rid of all the white space by clicking a black area of your picture, any piece, then go to Select –> Same –> Fill Color and it will select all the black in your image. Now go back to Select –> Inverse. Hit the Delete (or Backspace) key and all your white space is gone!
7. Now, highlight all of your image. Go to Pathfinder and under Shape Modes click your first option “Add to shape area”. Wah-la! Vector image! If you want people to be able to edit your vector image then skip this step and simply group your image. =]
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