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Posted by Kim Silvia (Member # 877) on :

hi there,

does anyone know where I can purchase a graphic of an oil truck (side view) to be used on t-shirts & sign.

any help would be great....

Posted by Doug Fielder (Member # 803) on :

Try one of those ART Explosion Clip art books, they usually have some usable stuff in them. Pretty good for doing layouts and different designs too, takes some work, but can be cut on a plotter too.

Posted by Kim Silvia (Member # 877) on :

I did look there, no luck.

Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :

Since I am not computer-equipped or even savvy enough to retrieve a lot of stuff from the 'puter, and also because of BC years (Before Computer) [Razz]

Sometimes, with the time spent searching for something, you could'a just drawn it.

Also, there are so many other things availabe to utilize. Here's a coupl'a things that might spark some useable ideas:

~Yellow page ads.
In your case lok under trucks, oil co.s etc.
Often they will have clip-art in their ad. I reckon with a scanner you could get an image from there and need-tweak it on your computer.

~Just go there.
Try your local oil-truck company, a truck-sales location, or a truck repair shop. Mabey they all even have a web-site on the computer you could visit for ideas. . . but I meant actually GO there . . . [Big Grin]

They have all kinds of magazines, calendars, and sales material with photos and clipart drawings . They won't mind you flippin' thru them and tearin' out what you need. They'll probably even give you a stack to take with you. They would'nt even mind loanin' a calender with the perfect pic you need, if you promised to bring it back... (and really DO return it . . . [Wink]

Never forget the library. [Smile]

Finally, projecting a colour-pic is a sure-nuff easy way to make it into 'clip-art . . .imagine me BC . . .I projected photos, drawing and outlining positive and negative-space shapes to create clip-art and then often HAND-CUT it in vinyl.
(Ack! I STILL do this a lot!)

With a scanner, does one have some program in the computer that converts photos to some base pixles, to general shapes, which you can then clean-up for that crisp, basic clip-art look??

Posted by Michael Latham (Member # 4477) on :

tried to e-mail you but e-mail address listed is wrong, vector arts vol 2, has good tankers, I use them all the time.

Posted by Jill Marie Welsh (Member # 1912) on :

Do a Google image search.
Find a pic of a truck you like.
Print it out.
Trace it using a window or a light table.
Use a fine-line black marker.
Scan to vector.
Clean as needed.
Easy and more unique than clip-art.
Love.....Jill

Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :

Kim,

Along the lines of what Jill suggests, there is an excellent tutorial on reproducing vehicles from photos here.

Posted by Kim Silvia (Member # 877) on :

thank you for your support.

It's just me here and this is a design for tee's and sign for my husband's family business (no profit there) so I'm looking for an easy out.

I did the original years ago and suddenly my printer "lost" it. I can't find original, my fault.

back to the drawing board. thanks though.

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