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Hi evrybody, i see now only cartoons in the Gallery, and no drawings or Illustrations, just for some change here is illustration from me done in XDP6. The compass it self based on a Tutorial for Illustrator, but i recreated in Xara, the rest of illustration all vector objects done in Xara.
Hope you like it and any comments and suggestion are welcome.
Best Regards BP
really beautiful BP.
Thank you for sharing it
Another superb drawing.
The glass part of the compass is brilliant.
The window reflection is excellent but I'm not sure about the roundish white shiny bit on the right side of the glass.
The window reflection looks so real.
Am I making any sense here or am I just being too critical? Sorry.:o
Wow! Just when you think that your work can't get any better, you pull another one out of your hat. You're like a magician with Victor. You just pull another one out of thin air.
I really like the depth and shading that you created through the glass. it looks three-dimensional. The colors were very well together. I will have to agree with Rik about the white circle on the glass. it's a little too hard of a reflection. you may want to try doing the reflection that you did on the globe. I enjoy this particular type of art. you did a wonderful job with the entire piece. Great work.
Where did you find the tutorial? I'm always looking for something interesting to draw and I think this would be something that I would enjoy doing.
Another nice work black panther. In my humble opinion I noticed the right side reflection too as did Rik. I thought it was too large. No offense intended. You see the problem with doing great work is that absolute perfection is expected from you! This could have been a great response to my gauge/metre challenge but of course you did not submit. How do you take the line drawing and turn it into color?
Thanks Javier, Rik, Paul and Sylvan for your comments, Rik, Paul, Sylvan you are right regards this reflection part, i deleted it and looks great too, even if i delete the golden Background of the compass, it looks nice too and looks as the glass compass flay in the air.
Rik donīt worry i have no problem with right comments or any critic. I learn too from this comments and critic.
Paul I sent you the link adress.
Sylvan thanks so much, and i have no problem with critic, then i was busy with drawing the compass and i posted too in your thread that iīm going now to draw the meter for your thread.
Regards the OUTLINE, what you asked about it. this is so at first you draw your image coloured it make the JPEG export, then set the view quality to Outlines and export it as WireFrame, ( Windows- Quality- Outlines ).
I attached the new updates from the Illustration like your suggestions.
Thanks again
Best Regards BP
WOW!
Now, if I had a hammer, I'm sure I could break that glass.
Looks so good - you could just reach out and pick it up.
=D>
Nice job, as always, BP.
For anyone else that's interested, the compass appears to be a vector tuts+ tutorial and is available here, How to Create a Golden, Vector Compass in Illustrator.
Rik, please donīt break my Xara Glass with your Hammer, will be not happy then.
Thanks Harry so much and thanks for sharing the Tutorialīs link, forget to attach it.
Best Regards BP
SHAZAM!
Now someone will have to do a hammer illustration for Rik!
I know you've said "golden" but to me it looks like an authentic brass ship's compass. beautiful job, as always! :thx
Hi BP.
I`m amazed with your productivity and high quality of your pictures. Hope you are full of ideas. ))).
But (((( I am here again with some criticism )))))
Reflection is very special area, which continually try to band an environment. Actually only deformation of reflection tell us about real form of mirroring surface because we can`t to see it like we see a matt one. That`s why I want to say about your window reflect. It has to look other way. I tried to demonstrate it on screenshots that I did in 3D program. It`s not absolutely perfect but show a main idea. Sorry for my poor English.
Hope my note will be useful for you and other ones.
Best wishes .
Hi Valery.
What beautiful work.
=D>
I don't understand Valery,
Why does it have to be the other way? To my poor eyes BP.s looks correct and makes a certain amount of since. It seems that the way the glass is bulging out that the reflection would be larger at that area closest to the viewer.
in very simple terms the widest point of a window reflection will be at the end of the reflection nearest the window - this is almost certain to be the edge of the compass.....
Hi Valery,
I just took out a clear lightbulb and used the light source from a window to see the type of reflections in the bulb. I think I understand your point of criticism, however I assume that blackpanther's light source was at the top left hand side, making his window reflection 100% accurate. I noticed that your star graphic has the same position in relation to the light. Unless his light source came from a different location, I think that his golden compass is technically correct.
Thanks Friends,
Big Frank, think you are right it looks nearly like a brass and not like a gold effect.
Valery, thanks again for your explaining the windows reflection, and donīt worry, I axept the cretic from evryone, i changed the direction of the reflection windows. Your work is intressting and awesome. thanks for your comments on my drawing.
Larry, thanks for your point about the reflection.
Sylvan, Thanks for your experiment with the lightbulb.
Here a new update regards Big Frank and Valery.
Thanks again evry body.
Best Regards BP
Hi Valery,
I am embarrassed to say that I was concentrating so much on the globe that I neglected the shape of the window outside the globe. Brilliant observation on your part. Excellent tutorial too!
Sylvan,
Maybe you can test this since I can't find a round reflective object at the moment and its dark out.
If the reflection is larger closest to the source, then would it be brightest there also? I accept the point about the source and size and am just wondering. Or, would it naturally fade as it gets farther from the viewer? Either way there has to be some artistic license taken. So which is most correct, BP's or Valery's? I'm sure I don't know, both are great and I just wish I could do somewhere near as well, but again I am just wondering.
The reflection would be the other way round on the globe too. As stated earlier the reflection would narrow down to the radius point of the glass cover because after the radius point it would no longer reflect that way. It would also curve from the radius point.
Thanks Keith for the Explain the reflection point.
Larry, i must follow Valery advice, becouse of he is interior design teacher of graphic design. also he learnt what about Graphics, light reflection and all thing about Graphics and he teatch another people at Graphic school.
I donīt learn any thing about Graphics, i do this as hoppy and fun with Xara. so i realy appreciate his advice and follow it and iīm glad to find someone who tell me about what is wrong in my drawing.
Thanks again Valery for your advices and suggestions.
And thank you all for your comments, suggestions and advices.
Best Regards BP
Very nice drawings, M.
Your window highlight is too extreme however. The glass on the compass is a very gentle curve and will not cause that much distortion.
I have been struggling with this problem since yesterday. Finally I found a light bulb and sure enough you guys are correct. But there are so many variables. Does the reflection meet the edge of the sphere, well that depends on the distance the source reflection is from the sphere, viewing angle, maybe the curvature(although I couldn't test this.), etc. etc. etc. as for the fading that seems to be very subtle but it did seem that the brightest area was closest to the light source therefore I maintain that some artistic license is needed for the sake of the picture even if its not 100% correct.
Sometimes it helps to consult reality. This is a photo wide angle lens that has a slight curvature placed in front of a window.
Hi wizard509 - I found that all your conclusions are valid. The closer to the window the closer the reflection starts on the left side of the bulb, etc. Of course a clear light bulb is not a half globe! When I positioned the bulb far enough from the window to get a small, complete reflection, another relection appears 180 degrees away on the other side of the bulb. And again the sizes of the reflection on the bulb are mirror opposites of each other. One is broad to narrow and the other is narrow to broad. Hi gwpriester - In the above experiment I did not find to be true what was in your beautiful art work. My reflections did not lose sharpness. Both sides were as sharply focused or almost as sharp. Which brings to my mind a question. If someone wants his work to be that precise in all respects, why not just use a camera and snap a pic!
Why cook a delicious meal when I can buy a take-away ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by sylvan
This movies (1 and 2) show glass on the table and reflection of a window that is on top (in the ceiling for ex.)
Movie #3 shows reflection of a window on the wall.
Thank you Gary and Valery very interesting examples, Gary your photo shows what my mind told me might be true in the beginning when I started yapping about this. Sylvan, my test showed a second reflection like you noted but I didn't pay too much attention to it, at the time I was more focused on the bigger one. It is interesting to note that Gary's photo shows this second reflection phenomenon as well. Thanks one and all for contributing to my enlightenment. Gary I would like to keep that photo for reference if you dont mind. Keith, thank you for your example as well.
Hi RUSS-USSR. Thanks very much for the movie tutorial. I think I am learning more than the blackpanther! haha. Anyway, after all this talk and tutorials, I think that the BlackPanther should be back on track. And I am expecting some great work from the BlackPanther now!
BP, you out did your-self again. You never cease to surprise me. That is absolutely fantastic. Whenever I get time, I'll have to try this style. I like it. Thanks for the tutorial :D
Thanks evrybody,
Valery and Gary thank you very much for pointed all about windows reflection
Sylvan, i learn every day a new somthing, donīt worry.
Thanks Merv, it will be great for you to do another Tutorials in Xara to experiment with.
Best Regards BP
I thought I would have a go at a small compass.
It's not a brass or a golden one, but, it's waterproof!
:)
My effort at making a gold/brass one, like Black Panther's.
hey Rik, that turned out very well. I really like the gold one. Good job!
Hi Rik,
Great drawing of the Compass, i have tested your first compass in the rain, it is not waterProof. You can see it in the attached image, water is inside the compass. Maybe the second one is WaterProof, gold is always Waterproof.
Rik great drawing, well done.
Best Regards BP
Hi BP.
Love your sense of humour!
;))
Here is the file so that you can put the water drops on the drawing itself!