July 2013 Tips and Tricks: How to Draw a Photorealistic Bottle Cap

[Barbara B]

How to Draw a Photorealistic Bottle Cap



Celebrate the summer by flipping your lid, with a written, hands-on tutorial by Rik Datta on how to create a convincing bottle cap. Meant for artists of all skill levels, you’ll get a kick out of following along from scratch in this wonderfully detailed and engaging tutorial this month.

Anyone with version 9 of Photo & Graphic Designer, Page & Layout Designer, Designer Pro 9, and or Xara version 5 and up (we believe).

Read the tutorial and download the resource files.

Then show us your lids!

[Big Frank]

great drawing and great tutoriel rik!

[Gare]

Indeed.

Let me provide a correction here, and it's because I've been out for the count for so long: Rik's tutorial is the main tutorial for July, he's the star presenter this month, and the tute is erroneously listed on the Tips and Tricks area due to human error (see 'Problem detected between the chair and the keyboard'). And too difficult to set right while I have a shorter Tips 'n' Tricks we're putting up in the next day or so.

This is a stunning piece of Xara art to learn from, and step-by-step, Rik makes it do-able by Mere Mortals.


Alive and kicking (and limping),

Gary

[Ron Duke]

WONDERFUL tut, Rik! Thanks so much.

[csehz]

Thanks for the tutorial, relating that link how to go further from the first page, for me the last one is the figure11 on the screen and no button to page

[Rik]

Looking at your attached image, it seems that your page ends at 'Figure 11'.
That's very strange.
I'm sure Barbara will look at it very soon.

[angelize]

Very enjoyable tutorial Rik. I've finally been able to give it a go. I decided that since we are celebrating summer here I'd do something that brought back fond memories of summers from my youth My mother used to make her own homemade root beer and I can remember once it was bottled it had to be left for a few days to brew and we were always asking is it ready yet? And of course root beer floats were a favourite! So this is a tribute to those long ago days and home made root beer

[stygg2003]

Nice tut. Rik and well laid out. Added it to my bottle top collection. As a matter of interest seeing you like to see how other people do things, I've uploaded a similar drawing I did in 2009. Thanks again for the tut.

Stygg

[Gare]

Thanks for the tutorial, relating that link how to go further from the first page, for me the last one is the figure11 on the screen and no button to page

We don't always do "pages", Csehz. Rik's tutorial is a single scrolling page; scroll down or press PageDown to continue in your web browser. Barbara always tests against multiple browsers, including mobile devices and even Opera.

See? It works in both FF and ie, which I use:



-g

[Rik]

Thanks for your comments guys and gals.
And thanks to those who've had a go at the tutorial.

Frances: I like what you've done with your bottle top. I've never had Root Beer! I prefer the real stuff.

Stygg: Nice improvisation. I like it.


INFO: At Step 3 (in the tutorial) you may want to add a 'Drop Shadow' to enhance the look.

Gary has kindly inserted the instructions for this on XaraXone, already.