And even more glass

[Egg Bramhill]

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 Bramhill]

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

[jassony]

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?

[Egg Bramhill]

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.]

[Soquili]

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]

[philhendry]

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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[Bob C.]

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]

[gwpriester]

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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[Egg Bramhill]

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

[gwpriester]

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

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