Army Cap

**stygg2003** · 03 January 2009, 12:44 PM

Hi everyone,
seems everyone is drawing tuts. from Vectortuts, so I thought I'd try one myself. This is the army cap tut. for Illustrator, so like Bob, I tried it in Xara giving it my rendition.

I've uploaded the original finished drawing so you can compare and make any comments on what I could have done better, nothing to cruel now!

The first is my attempt.

Stygg2003

**raynerj1** · 03 January 2009, 02:58 PM

They both look good Stygg.

the one on the white background appears to have be a better match with US army green. Which is xara and which is from the original tut?

**stygg2003** · 03 January 2009, 05:57 PM

Originally Posted by raynerj1

They both look good Stygg.

the one on the white background appears to have be a better match with US army green. Which is xara and which is from the original tut?

The one on the white background is the original drawing, but the photograph the tut. was based on has no resemblance to both colours? It looks more like a first world war army cap belonging to the Lancashire Fusiliers?

Stygg

**Soquili** · 03 January 2009, 06:55 PM

Hi Stygg,

Nice drawings. The colours in the white background look best to me.

I think the emblem on the front of the cap in the photo is a U.S. Marine emblem Corps. The colour looks like those used during World War II.

**steve.ledger** · 03 January 2009, 11:00 PM

So the one with the green background is your drawing right?
The one on white looks drawn by someone else as the style is totally different.

Good job

**stygg2003** · 04 January 2009, 06:18 AM

Thanks for the info. Bill. Think I'll re-colour it, because the original colours do look better, but I'll keep my first attempt as well.

**stygg2003** · 04 January 2009, 06:23 AM

Correct Sledger, I tried not to draw it exactly as the tut but to draw it as I saw it too.

**Albacore** · 04 January 2009, 09:32 AM

Stygg the way that I would do something like that is to make two boxes of the art board the with the eyedropper from the colour editor fill one of the boxes with the lightest colour and then fill the second with the darkest colour. Once that is done do a blend between the two boxes then use Ctrl+Shift+S, Ctrl+U twice to un-group them and there you have all the colours you need to colour your object.