Wooly Willy Table

Step 4 Vectorize Willy

The file will need to be tweaked a bit before you can live trace it in Illustrator.  Use the magic wand in Photoshop to select and paint all of the areas until you've reduced the image to just 5 colors.  You can also use the refine edge tool to further soften and smooth the edges between colors.

Once you've got it looking good, bring it over to Illustrator and do a live trace on it.  I chose to do a 5 color comic illustration trace on it.  Then, start messing with it some more to clean it up.  Use the pathfinder tool to join and simplify the paths so that Willy starts to look like an actual digital illustration with nice smooth edges.

All in all, Willy underwent a pretty extensive face lift that lasted a couple hours.  What came out the other end was a near perfectly vectorized willy image capable of being blown up to any size.  Many thanks to fungus amungus for all his help in this step of the process.

Save yourself all of this work and simply download one of the vector files provided below.

Comments

[bdschwab]

Think there might be some copyright issues here- you might want to use another graphic for the face-

[hjjusa]

If I understand correctly, copyrights only apply if you intend on selling the made product. Could be wrong though.

[bradhouser]

Don't try to sell it, and there should not be any issue. Besides, you are asked to buy one for the iron filings, so they will get a sale anyway.

[motherprinter]

 Yeah, be careful, some other artist made him.  You have to respect that.  Great idea.