The major difference is the tools used, the purpose and the result - while they both look the same, wattpad vectors are often drawn digitally using a brush tool and eraser. But design vectors are made using a pen tool by making shapes and lines using points (it’s sort of hard to explain, but it looks something like this)
Bascially, you’re putting points on the screen and noting their relationship to each other rather than putting blocks like with a brush. So to make a solid shape this way, you make points and join them back to the initial point and then fill it in.
These vectors work because the software sees them as a relationship between points, and so you can scale it up or down to any size and it would look the same without getting pixelated - because the software is just multiplying the ratios by whatever scale you’ve chosen.
Does that make any sense? 
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Oooh, interesting, because another person told me that it looks like a poetry cover to me 
thanks for letting me know! Any tips on how to make it more poetry-ish?
I read that and totally forgot to respond to it. Oh my gosh, I’m sorry. But yes, that makes sense, just seems like a way more complicated process to me. I don’t know. Every tutorial video I’ve watched never shows it being made that way. But I’ve realized why designers don’t make vector covers as much haha. I’m still working on this and it’s been weeks. But to be fair, I spent like an hour or so on one of the boys shoes, only to save the work and not click save as so it didn’t actually save it. 
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I know no one else cares, but because it’s taking me as long as it is, I have to share. Here’s the progress I’ve made on the vector I’ve been working on for months now. I’m getting a little faster now, and hopefully will have it done here soon.
Editing to add the finished cover to the post.
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Yep, mostly because vector covers wattpad style are all drawn vectors, never really the professional ones you would make in illustrator.
Yeah, vectors are TEDIOUS!
Oof, that sucks!
This looks good! You might want to differenciate between their skin tones, though. And I think the girl’s legs are too yellow compared to her face
Thoughts? (Update: I got rid of the previous versions of these covers because I don’t like seeing my old cringy stuff 
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Been getting a lot of vector requests lately, I might as well become a vector specialist 
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Thank you! The first one (The Phantom Conspiracy) is my most complex vector to date. Most of it was done in Photoshop but I did use PhotoScape X and a bit of Canva to make it. I had to vectorize the background and the girl, and the shadow was made from at least two different stock images 
The second cover (Did You Know) was the second hardest only because of the girl. Vectorizing curly hair was hard as hell, and I had to stitch three pictures together just to get that vector girl, it was not easy 
after that I just slapped the girl in Canva and played around.
The last ones were mostly made in Canva. I did vectorize the people myself but they were way easier to do than the others 
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I love The Phantom Conspiracy one! 
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I’m experimenting with multi-colored text. I feel like the second one…there should be more stuff going on in the middle part with the woman, but then maybe not? Thoughts?
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Yeah, the first two even look complicated hehe
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Idk what I made… Thoughts?
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This is pretty! But while the background and the sides give me fantasy, I think the font gives me more of a romance feel. The author name font does with with the theme more
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Interesting the font gives romance vibes. I wasn’t sure what genre I should go for Maybe I could make another cover with the same font and make it fantasy romance somehow.
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Feedback for this? Made this cover on a whim, randomly. Just please don’t tell me it’s generic, I wanted to make something generic on purpose. I know this isn’t one of my best, but it was a welcome break from everything else I’m working on that is high-scrutiny.
And I made this for my father’s birthday a while back, it’s drawn digitally entirely on photopea (new achievement, I’d always struggled with using photopea for art.)
I love how this looks on my laptop his laptop and desktop as a wallpaper. I know the lines could be cleaner and the composition could be better, but I’m pretty happy with it for a first try.
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Definitely an interesting idea!
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