Curving a shadow

[Egg Bramhill]

It's handy using SketchUp to indicate shadows. Here's another done in SketchUp & recreated in Xara.

[wizard509]

I was thinking the same thing about the cast shadow Egg, although in my mind the outside ends seem like they should actually be wider and blurree than the part close to the piece casting the shadow. Also if the sphere is lit more from one side then the cast shadow on the opposite side would tend to fade out. My thoughts oin the matter at any rate but, I have no proof.
@ Frances: Beautifully rendered example.

[angelize]

yes Egg you are right, And I have a 3D modeling program I could have used to make sure I had the shadow right

Thanks Larry

I wonder how Dave made out with his Valentine?

[Egg Bramhill]

I wonder how Dave made out with his Valentine?

Probably too embarrassed to let us mere mortals view it Frances

I agree re the fading/expansion bit Larry. I did fade it out but didn't expand it much.

More like this?

[wizard509]

Yes that's closer to what I envision. So here is one using Franceses red ball with the shadow closer to the way I think it should be although I probably didn't make the curve deep enough. Yours is probably closer Egg.

[dcahall]

Here is another one that you can all have some fun with (just do not laugh too loud and wake up the rest of the world). I took about fine minutes and used something I was working on from a tutorial Gare had issued a challenge. I did not take time to completely clean up the shadow (some lines that need to be eliminated) but thought it might provoke some of you "real" artists (of which I am not part of) to submit some even more elaborate solutions to the thread topic.

[wizard509]

oK dcahall interesting idea. Of course I see a couple problems with the shadow I have to leave for awhile but when I get time later I'll do something with it.

[dcahall]

Looking forward to your solution.

As I said, I only took about 5 minutes. The original was a "grouped" object which I tried to recolor and then use the mold to reshape somewhat. I think I could have done better also if I had taken more time. I think the bottom line here is that there are ways to accomplish the task if you learn how to use the features of the tool and are willing to experiment a little. People like you, Frances, Gare and several others can teach the rest of us a tricks to accomplish almost any task

[wizard509]

467778if you learn how to use the features of the tool and are willing to experiment a little.

Well that's how you learn.

[stygg2003]

Don't know if these are any help to you dcahall, but the second image you could experiment more with the mould tool.

Stygg