How to draw a cocoon (stretched sphere)?

Hi,

It's easy to create a sphere from a circle and a clone with circular transparency.
But how does one draw a cocoon (stretched sphere), like the (rather poor) example in attached gif?

Stephan

Hi,

Welkom terug/Welcome back

Create a circle
clone the cirle move it a little to the right
select both circles and add shapes
select with the shape editor tool(f4)the three right handles/nodes
and move them to the right(hold down ctrl)
(you could use the rectangle tool with rounded corners also)
Hope it helps,Hans

Welcome to the Xara Gallery Conference Stephan

Here are a few ways. There are many more and I am sure others will share their methods. :)

Gary

Or...

Create a capsule shape.

Duplicate and apply an Inner Contour with the Contour Tool.

Press the Inset Path icon - This makes a single new object

Apply Linear transparency to the white shape.

Gary

I just use a blend between 2 lines.
I try as much as possible not to blend between (complex) shapes, because the blend often doesn't turn out right ;)

Or is this the kind of cocoon you're after?

Hi Egg,

Nice one
Since your the flash man;Can you make it pop and fly away like a butterfly ;)

Hans

Well gentlemen,

I must say that have been very quick with your assistance.
I had found a Xara Xone workbook exercise about Gel buttons, which is pretty much the same method as Gary's 2nd posting in red. But I wasn't too pleased with the end result. Particularly as the cocoon has to co-exist with the purplish spheres I had already created.
I think I'll play around a bit with Gary's green and the Alien's blue methods.

Thanks very much folks,

Stephan

Alien

That's a brilliant solution! Why didn't I think of that? :o

Gary

Hehe, I've learned this technique a long time ago from the Shading a bent tube thread at the tips & tricks board ;)