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@CLCanadyArts Thanks Cassandra! I resketched the pillar, but basically used your modifications. Fortunately I still have a version of PS (CS5) so I don't have to resort to a subscription. I just don't use it enough to justify the expense.
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@animatosoor I'm back! I have been looking at AI, Affinity Designer and Vectornator tutorials. My version of AI doesn't have image trace function, so I would be tracing with the dreaded pen tool
I downloaded Vectornator since it's free. Drawing over my Procreate sketch is definitely do-able in Vectornator, but it looks like Affinity Designer is more robust and will allow me to automate thickness of lines. So I'm going to purchase that and hopefully the learning curve won't be too steep.Thanks again for your help!
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@Erin-Cortese I am back to work and will probably have some vector questions after trying out Affinity Designer that I just downloaded. After watching some tutorials, it looks like it is possible to adjust line thickness post-drawing in Affinity.
That would be a big help for me. Drawing using pressure is particularly difficult now. Good news/bad news: two of the 4 drugs in my chemo cocktail
put my cancer in remission, but killed my fine-motor control 
. Quick gesture drawing and watercolor still work, but anything requiring slow controlled marks or pressure involves infinite do-overs. I never thought I would switch from paper/pencil to digital for drawing, but savings on tracing paper probably funded my iPad Pro, Pencil & Procreate 
(the un-do feature is priceless!)Thanks again for all your help!
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@BichonBistro No problem at all, ask away! I'm really sorry to hear about your cancer struggles and loss of fine motor skills. I'm guessing you really do not need all this stress on top of everything else. If you feel comfortable with it, I would be happy to convert your logo to vector for you. Even if I had to trace it out in vector, I can't imagine it taking me more than 10 minutes and I would be happy to help. Otherwise, I am happy to answer any questions you may have. The only thing I may not be much help with is Affinity Designer because I have no experience with it.
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@BichonBistro Yes, these look great - the only exception is the text. It clearly does not work at the top for the exact reason you mentioned, but my thought about showing her an example was to save you time and going back and forth. I would send that along with one that has the text at the bottom, maybe including a little note about why the text at the top does not work well. If you tell her it takes away from the body shape, that may help you sell the idea of text at the bottom :).
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@BichonBistro If you have clip studio it is under "tool property", there is a stabilization bar, there is only 5 settings.
In Photoshop CC (not sure about other versions) it is under "smoothing" which is to the right of opacity and flow in the top bar. This setting goes by a percentage slider, from 0 - 100% and has much more finite control.
If you have a wacom, (maybe some other tablets have this option too?) adjusting the tip sensitivity can help too. I shake, so if the tip is super sensitive, it will show every jiggle, and line thick ess will jump around. Firm up the tip, and you have more control/forgiveness. When I color, I usually soften the tip pressure. So I keep then wacom preference panel open.
Can't really stabilize with vector, but it's nice that nodes are editable, can adjust a line with the handles. I knew a guy that would just quickly and sloppily lay out lines, then just go back and adjust each node to what he wanted.
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