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I've been very busy lately so I've missed a lot of great glass & gel threads. My wife has a set of engraved green glasses that were her grandmothers. I thought I'd have a go at reproducing one. I used shades of a colour so recolouring was a single step.
Egg
I've been very busy lately so I've missed a lot of great glass & gel threads. My wife has a set of engraved green glasses that were her grandmothers. I thought I'd have a go at reproducing one. I used shades of a colour so recolouring was a single step.
Egg
Egg, they are very nice and very glassy looking. One thing that sort of bothers me is the thick arc under the squarish (is that a word?) design.
Is that part of the cut glass or is it suppose to be a reflection?
Judi
No, the glass actually looks like this. The base has a green colour whilst it fade to clear at the rim. This gives it the strange arc of colour pulling up the glass. For once I drew from eye rather than having a photo as a guide, but this is the effect of that actually occurs due to the colour being in the base only.
I believe another reason for this strong reflection is that the glass is very small, you can just fit your thumb in it
Thanks for your comments.
Egg
[This message was edited by Egg Bramhill on April 05, 2001 at 08:45 PM.]
Hello Egg,
Glad to see you back in the forum. The glasses are excellent! If I didn't know better, I would say they were a photograph.
Thanks for giving us something to aspire to.
Soquili [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
I thought they were a photo to begin with. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img]
Really cool drawings [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif[/img]
Phil
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Truly amazing work Egg, thanks for submitting them. These glasses and Gary’s glass
disks are wonderful.
Bob C. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img]
Great looking cut glass effect, Mr. Egg.
Only criticism I have is the very bottom of the glass, the solid base. I tried (unsuccessfully) to illustrate what I think should appear in the base.
The bottom portion of a solid glass glass has a myriad of elliptical shapes/reflections that add to the transparency and glassyiness of the object, but I must be off my game today. (I've been fighting with Flash trying to figure out why the conference and guest tutorial buttons don't work. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif[/img]
Gary
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Thanks all for your comments.
Iknow what your getting at Gary, I wasn't to happy about the base either. As I look at the glass (in the same lighting as last night, I realised that I had missed a few reflective details out, and whilst I've tried to reproduce them I'm still not happy. The strange shadow / reflections on the very base of the glass are far darker than I've reproduced them, they also have a very definitive edge, but if I try to reproduce this it looks to false and vector like.
I also tried to do the shadow, which being a shadow produced thru glass is very odd. The Green colour was only present in the extreme bottom of the shadow, the rest being a very grey mix, but I gave up on this as nothing looked correct.
Hopefully I'll photograph the glass in the same lighting and see what others can make of it.
P.S. I hope thats not my guest tutorial thats still causing you grief?
Egg
The glass looks much better.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> P.S. I hope thats not my guest tutorial thats still causing you grief? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
No, not your, it's the Flash buttons on the home page. Wayne (IVCA) fixed them for me.
Gary
Gary Priester
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The glass fever is spreading in the Xara forums [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Both your drawings are great Egg. It is fascinating to see the improvement in your second image with that one subtle little change.
Even more impressive when you know that it is not traced from a photo.
Egg, thanks for posting it!
Risto
I did a version of this wine glass back in version 1.0. I wanted to see how much easier it would be in Xara X.
Why it practically drew itself [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
Gary
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Egg and Gary - Your glasses are beautiful. I don't just mean you've drawn them beautifully (you have), the glasses themselves are beautiful! Here at my home we use the not-so-fine plastic kind the kids can't break.
Gary - You comment that it practically drew itself in Xara X. Could it be your skills have improved over the years, along with improvements in software?
Regards, Ross
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Will I ever get this good?
Maybe.
I've been doing this for about 40 years or so. It takes time.
Gary
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Bcdeb - You can surpass Gary and Egg's impressive skills. Just keep pushing yourself to learn. Keep playing and find joy in what you do. Look to the generous help that Gary and Egg, to name but a few, offer in their efforts to share and learn.
Regards, Ross
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[This message was edited by Ross Macintosh on April 08, 2001 at 09:58 AM.]