XDP6 golden Compass

[Black Panther]

Hi evrybody, i see now only cartoons in the Gallery, and no drawings or Illustrations, just for some change here is illustration from me done in XDP6. The compass it self based on a Tutorial for Illustrator, but i recreated in Xara, the rest of illustration all vector objects done in Xara.
Hope you like it and any comments and suggestion are welcome.
Best Regards BP

[jvila]

really beautiful BP.
Thank you for sharing it

[Rik]

Another superb drawing.

The glass part of the compass is brilliant.

The window reflection is excellent but I'm not sure about the roundish white shiny bit on the right side of the glass.
The window reflection looks so real.

Am I making any sense here or am I just being too critical? Sorry.

[Psaumure]

Wow! Just when you think that your work can't get any better, you pull another one out of your hat. You're like a magician with Victor. You just pull another one out of thin air.

I really like the depth and shading that you created through the glass. it looks three-dimensional. The colors were very well together. I will have to agree with Rik about the white circle on the glass. it's a little too hard of a reflection. you may want to try doing the reflection that you did on the globe. I enjoy this particular type of art. you did a wonderful job with the entire piece. Great work.

Where did you find the tutorial? I'm always looking for something interesting to draw and I think this would be something that I would enjoy doing.

[sylvan]

Another nice work black panther. In my humble opinion I noticed the right side reflection too as did Rik. I thought it was too large. No offense intended. You see the problem with doing great work is that absolute perfection is expected from you! This could have been a great response to my gauge/metre challenge but of course you did not submit. How do you take the line drawing and turn it into color?

[Black Panther]

Thanks Javier, Rik, Paul and Sylvan for your comments, Rik, Paul, Sylvan you are right regards this reflection part, i deleted it and looks great too, even if i delete the golden Background of the compass, it looks nice too and looks as the glass compass flay in the air.
Rik don´t worry i have no problem with right comments or any critic. I learn too from this comments and critic.
Paul I sent you the link adress.
Sylvan thanks so much, and i have no problem with critic, then i was busy with drawing the compass and i posted too in your thread that i´m going now to draw the meter for your thread.
Regards the OUTLINE, what you asked about it. this is so at first you draw your image coloured it make the JPEG export, then set the view quality to Outlines and export it as WireFrame, ( Windows- Quality- Outlines ).
I attached the new updates from the Illustration like your suggestions.
Thanks again
Best Regards BP

[Rik]

WOW!

Now, if I had a hammer, I'm sure I could break that glass.

Looks so good - you could just reach out and pick it up.

[HayTay]

Nice job, as always, BP.

For anyone else that's interested, the compass appears to be a vector tuts+ tutorial and is available here, How to Create a Golden, Vector Compass in Illustrator.

[Black Panther]

Rik, please don´t break my Xara Glass with your Hammer, will be not happy then.
Thanks Harry so much and thanks for sharing the Tutorial´s link, forget to attach it.
Best Regards BP

[Rock]

SHAZAM!

Now someone will have to do a hammer illustration for Rik!