January 2014 Video Tutorial : Drawing Plastic and Chrome What's the Diff?

[stygg2003]

Thanks for the feedback Gary and all the measures I need to do to make the image less clinical, I agree it looks more realistic with the changes and thanks for the files, will implement them into my drawing, also the extra information on layout of this type of image, much appreciated.

Stygg

[stygg2003]

Reduced the size of the 6ft sphere, which reminded me of the giant glass Egg did a while ago and used the Xara Offices in England as the background. Anyway shrunk it down and implemented the changes Gary had shown and I think it looks better for it

Stygg

[Gare]

I think that looks great, stygg, and I recommend you put it in your gallery!

My Best,

Gary

P.S. I know that the Xara Group offices have a snooker table. Details, details...

[csehz]

Gare thanks for that vector pattern, it reminds me to the camouflage pattern which Bob showed once on XaraXone.

Stygg you are so diligant I always admire that, sorry just for one comment as tried to count the dalmatians in your room and realized that if there are 7 spots in one line then how the reflections have 12 But if it is abstract then okay and sure somehow the 101 come out once

[stygg2003]

Your absolutely right Csehz I never noticed I had 12, not so diligent after all! I was to busy trying to get the mold into the sphere but I'll settle for what you say, it's abstract, well that's my excuse!

Stygg

[Gare]

Ignore Csehz, stygg!

If you're short a few dots, I can help, here:



@Csehz: Ignore stygg. There, you're all set.

Seriously: that pattern you think looks like camouflage was originally a bitmap that did not seamlessly tile. I sort of fixed it in Photoshop, but some of the edges became unacceptably blurry. So I went through all this to bring you the silly pattern:

I used the Threshold command To make the thing black or white.

I used Vector Magic to auto-trace the result. Which took several tries because any Threshold command is going to produce aliasing which any auto-tracer interprets as unwanted jaggy lines.

I imported it as a PDF to Xara where I manually did a few things. you'll see that this is a Clip Shape, hiding areas of the smaller pieces that didn't perfectly align to the edges.

Ah, it's all a labor of love.

My Best,

Gary

[stygg2003]

@ Csehz, since you pointed out there was 12 shapes in the sphere mold and seven in the box floor its been driving me mad so I've altered it and now there are seven, but this time after making the sphere floor mold I made a bit map copy of it, made a mask and blurred the two top rows then clip viewed the lot and gave it a little more blur plus the trans. ellipse on top Gary suggested to make it less 2D. I've not got round to doing the pie chart yet so think I'll attempt that next and then back to a black sphere and shadow Gary posted a while back, it's really good so will attempt that. Your never stuck for work in the Xone

Stygg

[stygg2003]

Sorry guys meant to post this in #39, I think the sphere looks better off centre, less clinical.

Apologies Stygg

[csehz]

since you pointed out there was 12 shapes in the sphere mold and seven in the box floor its been driving me mad

Sorry for that, yesterday I just wanted to mention a simple solution - deleting the first 7 shapes line in the room, bring the sphere closer to the viewer so there should not be any line front of the sphere, after the reflection can contain any number of shapes even 12, because who will say that on the second part of the room there are no 12 per line? Automatically it could be 'real'. Then even a dalmatian could be in the reflection (please don't draw a dalmatian for this )

I've not got round to doing the pie chart yet so think I'll attempt that next and then back to a black sphere and shadow Gary posted a while back, it's really good so will attempt that. Your never stuck for work in the Xone

..and exactly that is why Stygg you are the most diligent