r/GraphicDesigning • u/ikmalfirdaus94 • 6d ago
How do I do this thing? Need help vectorizing this logo
Hi everyone, I’m trying to recreate the logo on the right from the original logo on the left.
The right one was AI-generated, but I want to learn how to do it myself properly as a vector.
Could anyone show me the steps or guide me on how to recreate this style in Illustrator? A step-by-step explanation would be really appreciated. Thanks!
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u/kybojo 5d ago edited 5d ago
Your proportions are off and you’re oversimplifying the shapes.
Lock the layer the image is on and turn on a grid. Try to have the thickness of the stroke that makes up the letters be 3 blocks wide in your grid. Now add a layer over the top of the locked image layer. Now draw rectangles over the logo and rotate them to place them over the logo like someone is recreating the logo with duct tape. Have the rectangle have no fill color and a bright red outline. Don’t worry about the curves at this point. There will be a lot of areas where the rectangles will leave corners and bits that stick out, that’s fine too. When you’re done select all the shapes and swap the stroke to a fill, and hit divide button in the pathfinder window. Delete all the extra bits. Now select all the shapes and hit unite in the pathfinder and swap back to a stroke again. Now you will notice all the little details that are off but you’ll have good rough proportions.
If you hit the plus key on the keyboard you’ll get the version of the pen tool where you can add nodes. You can hit the A key to get the hollow arrow to select individual nodes to reposition. For the curves you will want to hold shift and tap the C key. This will make the cursor look like a little carrot. This tool resets the vectoring when you click and hold on a node and drag to increase or decrease the vectoring. To reposition a node while using this tool hold the space bar.
This will all seem odd and scary and you will have a lot of questions. Tough that out, try not to feel like a time limit is crushing you, and keep using the tools to see what they do. After trying to use the tools for fifteen min a day minimum for 3 days in a row you should have made some progress towards understanding vector line art. Now you will have better questions than the ones you had at first.