It took me two mins, but I rebuilt it by hand in Corel Draw.No 'automatic tracing' at all.
I've been using Corel Draw since version 3, which is going on 11 years now. I find it's vector tools FAR more powerful and easy to use than Illustrators.
The whole cat face is built up of just 10 nodes around the outer edge - one at each corner point and one at each major curve change. Each eye/nose is made up of three nodes. The halo is simply two elipses. So - two elipses and 19 nodes, plus a few pullings of curves and voilla.
*edit* Even though I've been with Corel Draw for 11 years, I'll be the first to admit that some of the versions of Corel Draw have been unstable sacks of crap. I'm on 12 now and it's rather nice.
(I've been using Corel Draw since version 3, which is going on 11 years now. I find it's vector tools FAR more powerful and easy to use than Illustrators.
The whole cat face is built up of just 10 nodes around the outer edge - one at each corner point and one at each major curve change. Each eye/nose is made up of three nodes. The halo is simply two elipses. So - two elipses and 19 nodes, plus a few pullings of curves and voilla.
*edit* Even though I've been with Corel Draw for 11 years, I'll be the first to admit that some of the versions of Corel Draw have been unstable sacks of crap. I'm on 12 now and it's rather nice.
Evil Prof. Pixel Masher I made this!,
Sat 28 Jan 2006, 5:06,
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