Thanks, good stuff as always, Gare.
** Detailed "Create A Spinning Logo Tutorial" is available in .pdf format for download at this link **
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx.
It's not just this site, iamtheblues. Most other graphic sites are dead, dead, dead, or gone, gone, gone. Just a few of us old goats left (speaking for myself of course).
I'm sure you are correct in what you say, Gray, I thought I would be more distressed than I actually am by this sad state of affairs, but I seem strangely unmoved, in fact I am pleased to be an Old Goat, perhaps I'll design an Old Goat Badge.... I imagine that younger generations prefer the instant gratification that is the ephemera of Instagram and Twitter. Let them have it, they are welcome to it.
** Detailed "Create A Spinning Logo Tutorial" is available in .pdf format for download at this link **
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx.
Larry a.k.a wizard509
Never give up. You will never fail, but you may find a lot of ways that don't work.
Crikers, I haven't posted anything in months!
Let me continue, if you please.
After getting a new machine sometime last year, as I populated it, I found I really didn't have any evocative icons that clearly told me (and possibly me alone) what clicking the button does.
So, tah-da, and all that good stuff...
If you like them (attached), feel free to use an icon utility (I use IconLover) to create your own...after perhaps editing them in XD. If there are any questions about what any particular icon represents, post your question right here. Or below right here, sorry.
I cannot vouch for this one, but here's a link to a free icon editor utility Free icon editor
Please post here if the editor sucks, okay?
My Best,
Gary
Illustrating reflective surfaces is a great pastime for artists of all skill levels, but rendering "chrome" requires two things, off the top of my head, to create a convincing scene.
1. Set up a study of the reflective scene you want to draw, for the sake of phgotorealism. There is no way, no how a human brain can calculate the reflection angles of illuminated objects from multiple angles.
2. Less if more. You'd be surprised how little actual detail it takes to simulate a reflective surface. I wanted to do a "car chrome" logo last you, took a photo of the back hatch from about 5 angles, ad surprisingly, there wasn't that much detail. Just a lot of flat color areas with a highlight here and there.
That said, I present you with a table setting.
If anyone would like to turn this into a discussion, let me know and I will post the Xara file for your perusal and we can talk about it. Actually, I did a Xara Xone video tutorial on reflections back when I hade more hair. I'll post a link when I get a moment.
-g
nice chrome effect
human brain works by pattern recognition, as you will know.. a simple pattern is often more effective than a 'confusing' one
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Nothing lasts forever...
That is a very good example of chrome, Gare.
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