Oct 27 2009
My Crash Course in Vectors Resulted in Clip Art Cupcakes
Yesterday I was trying to come up with t-shirt designs for Tasty Tulsa and I ended up giving myself a long-needed crash course in vectors. I wound up with… cupcakes!
I’m using a series of cupcakes in the shirt design, but am offering two of them here as free cupcake clip art – since these will be used for our shirts, they are permitted for personal use only. And if you do use them on your website, all I require is that you provide a link back to http://fyrewurks.com somewhere on the page(s) that they are used on.
Free Clip Art Cupcakes with White and Black Backgrounds:
KalaaLog provided a great tutorial on creating a vector feather which really helped me get going with vectors. I hope you enjoy – now I’m off to play with more vector images!
Hi there – I just stumbled on your site, and I’m challenged now to see if I can vector up some cupcakes myself. I have one question, though – the images look great on the white background, but the edges are very pixelated on the black background. Why is that, and how can I prevent it?
I think (trying to remember) it’s because I didn’t start on a transparent background but rather started with a white background and then lost some of the smoothness when I copied it onto the black. Just start with a transparent background or the color of your choice and it should be OK.