Lol if you say that to the Graphic Design community they will find you lol!!! I'm in a group as moderator of over 67k students and Procreate is like the untouchable term lmbo these folks have no idea how much truth you just said lol. Let me add more gasoline to the fire, it's not what I consider industry standard it's only popular because Apple users are good marketing zombies no matter what lmbo. 😂😂😂😂
@@MarketGuy84try 2nd hand / used. Trust me when I say you will do yourself no favors trying to progress on lackluster tools. Scrape and save and get a base model 10in (new ones are as cheap as $300). Anything else you buy won’t serve you well and it will have garbage resale value so it’s a dead investment. Ipad is going to be your cheapest viable entry point.
Stumbling on your videos was the greatest thing to ever happen to me! I just made my first vector logo and it took me all day, but I was able to use your videos to figure things out and get it done. I never thought I’d be able to ever create vector images and now a whole new world of possibilities are open to me to create. Thank you
Great intro to Fresco (or refresher if you haven’t used it in a bit) especially love the process tips! And that vector trimming is gonna be magic! Thank you!
I think it would be awesome if you put together a paid for course on using Fresco from beginner to advanced. I would definitely buy the course. Your videos are informative and awesome to learn from.
Chris, just found your channel today! Really excited to get more familiar with Fresco. I've been a designer for the last 15 years, but haven't done branding work in a while. This tool is just what I wanted five years ago when branding was all I was doing. Can't wait to use this for my brand work!!!
Amazing. I use illustrator regularly for 10+ years now and just started using procreate a year ago or so. I am kind of confused about raster, coloring, and printing output in procreate but still like the feeling of painting with pencil there. This Fresco is going to be promising. Thank you for sharing!
Soooo… you’re so good that I might just have to become a member. You’re a great teacher and very inspiring to see a fellow “ADHD’er” (⬅️ what?) doing well, the struggle is real. Thanks for the vids and vibes!
Agreed 2 years of art and design college cost me $24,000 learned more on Chris’s channel in 2 weeks, only real benefit of college for me was figure drawing and colour theory, good shit Chris keep going! Thanks for sharing your knowledge my adhd isn’t good for in class but your videos got me hooked on learning 🤘🏼🔥🇨🇦
I love your videos. I was never a Procreate guy but I’m a Clip Studio Paint guy because of the vector options. But I’ve been using Fresco more and more because of your videos. “It’s not called preview mode” then calls it preview mode the rest of the video. 😂
🎉thank you so much for this ❤ I’m designing concepts for a book and convert them to digital art 😮this is a great video to guide me through fresco design beginning to end. So hard to find simple fresco, or ANY fresco guides… Massive thanks xx
Great video. But you can also draw in illustrator if wanted, there is more than only the pen tool to make vector art. Give the pencil tool a go and you'll only need 1 program for nice crisp vector art.
I’m well aware of illustrator’s features, I spent many years working in illustrator most of my time working on branding design. In my experience the ease and control of the vector brushes in Fresco are better than illustrator. I also like the streamlined interface and the ability to work in raster and motion all in the same app.
Can Illustrator open a vector file created in Fresco? From the open dialog window within Illustrator (either on my Mac or iPad) I don’t see any Fresco files that I saved to my Adobe CC account. If I use the same open dialog screen from within PS, I can see the files I created in Fresco.
There's not a direct way, but towards the end of this video I demonstrate exporting your vector file to illustrator. You can export a PDF and open that in AI, or simply tap the Open A Copy in Illustrator option.
Great Vid, nice & concise even for people starting out I think. I've been running into the same issue when importing Fresco vector linework into AI and having to merge layers and clean up some of the small weird bits. Wondering if someone's come up with a clever script to clean up in one go. I seem to always have a few scattered bits in the file.
Thanks! Fresco actually has added something that helps a bit. If you go into your App settings, and then choose "Experimental" you'll see an option to "Simplify Vector Layers."
how do you exports the file in vectors? sorry, I'm new on these things and I don't understand how can I use my artworks made it on Fresco in vectors, for printings or t-shirt or even for an instagram post, PDF files are not good for most of the things that I wrote before.
Thank you for the video. It turns out that it is not possible to draw a finished vector illustration in Adobe Fresco, since then it will still have to be cleaned in Illustrator?
No problem. The artwork doesn’t have to be cleaned up in Illustrator, that’s just an optional step if you want the cleanest possible file. I only really do this if I am working on a logo that will be widely used and I want to make sure it’s as simple as possible.
@@chris-piascik Understood. Thank you. It’s just that you’re not the first to clean up your work in Illustrator, that’s my opinion. Thank you again and good luck)
This is very useful, if I wanted to make a vector I made a repeating pattern could I do that in fresco or what app would be easiest for that ? thank you
You could make a vector repeating pattern in Fresco but you’d have to cut it up manually to make the tile. If you did it the easy way by exporting to capture I don’t think it would maintain its vector-ness, but I could be wrong. I’ll have to try. Illustrator would be a good option though.
Hi Chris I have a question about the paint bucket fill. There is a bit of empty space between the lines of the reference layer and the amount of space that the paint bucket seems to fill? Do you also experience this and if so what do you do to correct this? Thanks Len
What size document do you make when drawing in vector? I know 300dpi does not matter but I more concerned about how different documents sizes can make a similar looking brushes look the same size at 5 px or 1000 px. I just wondering what good practices are so I’m not dealing with the extreme ends of setting it up. Thanks
When I’m drawing in pixel based brushes I usually set my document to at least 4000 pixels wide regardless of print size (if it’s going to be printed). I find that gives me the best control over my brush. This isn’t as much of an issue with vector brushes, but I’ll still usually work at a minimum of 2500 pixels when using vector brushes. Hope that helps!
Can I auto open a vector image I made on Fresco to Illustrator? I’m confused how that works, I know the files auto show up on Photoshop regardless of using vector brushes.
It sort of depends on how it’s being printed. If it’s something that is being mass produced it’s generally going to need to be CMYK, but a lot of the print on demand companies or digital printers are emulating RGB so you often get better results sticking with RGB for those situations.
The files are saved locally while you’re working on them. There shouldn’t be any delay on anything. As someone that has been drawing for a living digitally for almost 20 years I find Fresco to be the snappiest and have never had any lag even with files that have many layers of animation.
@@chris-piascik If they are saved locally then where are they? They aren't in my NAS, are they storing them in TEMP files on drive that shouldn't be used for working files? Do you see the issue here
I’m gonna be completely honest - I was slightly triggered that he continued to call it preview mode after he’d discovered it was called outline mode. 😖😂
I just recently started using Fresco and its been a godsend. This video helped me out tremendously. Procreate has been my comfort zone for the past few years but I've been wanting to switch to vector artwork for my graphic commissions. Creating on Illustrator always felt unnatural to me as an artist. Thanks for sharing your Fresco + Illustrator process.
I keep trying to convince myself that I need to know Illustrator (or Affinity Designer) for vector work, but I end up abandoning them and going back to Fresco every time.
Chris, my dude. THANK YOU. I can’t tell you how many Google searches I’ve done looking for a program that allows me to draw like I can on Procreate, but in vector form so I can up my game. You are literally the first source I’ve found that has shown me the ways a program is similar in that way to Procreate. Everything else I’ve watched/read has been very vector node based (like in Illustrator), with very little info on the drawing capabilities. After months of research, you are the person who finally helped me decide on which program to purchase! Thank you, fellow ADHDer, for putting such informative and clear information out there for fellow creatives!
You are the GO-TO guy for Fresco! And Von Glitschka is the man for Illustrator -- since these apps work together hand in hand, anyone using Ai should check out his channel as well. :)
Ok I must say, wow! Vector art has come ALONG way! I was intimidated by Illustrator years and years ago, I couldnt get the hang of it. And I havent tried it since, I didnt realize fresco was a thing util very recently and its so much easier now!
Thanks for all your videos. Tell Adobe to push the developers of Fresco for Android, we lose Ai Draw long time ago and still waiting. I enjoy so much working with Fresco on my Surface but also want to have it on my Android device.
Thanks for another awesome tutorial video Professor Piascik! I really like the way you teach, like in a real human, conversational way that is not too insrtuctor-y (like the voice that teaches Goofy how to do things or any corporate training video…) BTW, it would be awesome if you could make a half tone pattern in Illustrator so you can re-use it and save some time - but can you even open illustrator or pdf files in Fresco?
The file type is not important, it’s the resolution. To know if it’s suitable for print it must be at least 300dpi at 100% of the print size. So if you wanted to print something 10in wide, it would need to be at least 3000 pixels wide (10x300).
Hey Chris! Thanks for the video - you got me to try out Fresco in a time of need. However, anytime I've tried to scale up my design in Photoshop, it gets completely pixelated. Any possibility you've ran into this before and may have a solution? I've only used vector layers and tried deleting my clipping masks which has set me back exponentially after finding that wasn't the reason. Thanks!
Thanks! Are you inadvertently converting them to pixel layers? You’ll be able to tell by the icon next to the layer in Fresco. In Photoshop if you double click on a vector layer it should open up in illustrator.
Question... Why would graphic designers/illustrators/etc really ever want to draw with raster and have to worry about sizing if vector eliminated that worry? I only doodle and haven't done so seriously, but I've never understood what the pros are to drawing with something that has to have the final purpose fully understood before actually drawing because of scaling limitations. Why not just go ahead and do everything in vectors? I'm assuming there are cons to that that still have people choosing raster most of the time. I'd love to know!
There are limitations to the amount of detail can you achieve with vector art. You can’t quite emulate an authentic analog look with real textures like you can with raster brushes. Any sort of painterly style isn’t really possible in vector, or natural looking shading, realism, etc.
Hi! I love your art! I want to do this so bad but my resources are limited, I only have a laptop. Can you maybe do something like this in Illustrator? I feel like I can do so much better with this than with the pen tool in AI though 😂
Not a dumb question, but I don’t know if there’s a specific name, it’s just sort of my style. I know there’s similar stuff out there, but I like to think mine is somewhat unique. But I think it’s like a hybrid of cartoon, street art, and retro design or something.
Excellent video Chris, only thing I would have liked to see is when you switched to Illustrator it would have been great if you had done it on your I pad as then the whole video would have been relevant to those of us that work mobile. Also I have just started getting my head (slightly) round Illustrator on my iPad as I often need to have a vector finish but I do find it a struggle still coming from learning everything in the very intuitive Procreate, do you think I would find it easier to do my vector work in Fresco or to push on through and struggle on with iPad Illustrator? Really appreciate any guidance.
Hi! Sorry for the slow response. To be honest, I almost never use illustrator on the iPad because I’m so used to the workflow on the desktop. For me drawing directly in Fresco is the easiest way to make vector art as I can just draw normally.
Hey dude, learned a lot from you - thanks! Does Fresco allow you to manipulate anchor points on the Vector artwork as it does in Illustrator? Of course that would be great if you need to create different versions of a character to create new characters.
Hey Chris, does fresco have the ability to create a layer mask? so as to be able to separate the line art layer from a white background? i could you do a tutorial video on that if it does for a future video, also had sent you a DM on Insta not sure if you got it or you get a ton of them.
Hey, fresco can do layer masks, but it sounds like all you’d need to do is put your line work on a separate layer from the background. I’m sorry I missed your DM, I do get a ton on there.
Hey Chris! Is there a way to make your own VECTOR brush? Say a half tone pattern on a brush, say dots then the snap to line would space them evenly when is straightens out while also tapering with weight pressure?
I'm nowhere near a pro, but your point about not being able to get ideas out unless the feeling of "pen and paper" hit home for me. No matter the media I have this issue. But on the iPad I feel it holding me back more. So thanks for putting that feeling into words!
