{"id":1102,"date":"2012-07-26T07:56:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T12:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaimerios.com\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2012-07-26T07:56:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T12:56:27","slug":"vector-drawing-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"Vector drawing programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Inman made a <a href=\"http:\/\/live.washingtonpost.com\/the-oatmeal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> where he discussed how he does his illustrations for his website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoatmeal.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.theoatmeal.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen any of this stuff, I would recommend that you only do it while you are home because his site is a big productivity killer.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it got me very interested in doing illustrations again, but I&#8217;ve usually only do that by hand and I didn&#8217;t feel like spending $800 on Illustrator.<\/p>\n<p>Off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia has a listing vector programs available; some good, some bad; some just ok. I have been using Inkscape for a while, but I&#8217;m not too crazy about it.<\/p>\n<p>Then I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiancoding.com\/sketch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sketch by Bohemian Coding<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This program fits the bill!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s affordable, filled with a lot of features and actually works&#8230; which unfortunately most other programs don&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n<p>My only gripe with Sketch is that it cannot open SVG based drawings or Illustrator files, but that I something I leave to Inkscape to do&#8230; though I would really love Sketch to do that instead.<\/p>\n<p>So if you are looking to do vector based drawing at a reasonable price, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiancoding.com\/sketch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sketch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Inman made a video where he discussed how he does his illustrations for his website: www.theoatmeal.com. If you haven&#8217;t seen any of this stuff, I would recommend that you only do it while you are home because his site is a big productivity killer. Anyway, it got me very interested in doing illustrations again, &#8230; <a title=\"Vector drawing programs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/?p=1102\" aria-label=\"Read more about Vector drawing programs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[243,291,472],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-illustration","tag-macos","tag-vector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}