red vase

[TimS]

here's my latest, as always, hope you like it.
tim

[Wayne D]

Very nice work.


like the overall look and balance.

Wayne D

[Terry]

Tim,

With the latest revision, I just realised that the incense stick holder is supposed to be a sphere. The original reflection made it look as if it were shaped like a wheel.

Do you play pool?

Reflections off of a curved surface are not particularly intuitive, and neither is the way one pool ball will bounce off another. If you fire a beam of light from the viewer's eye to the reflection of the window on the sphere, will that beam reflect off of the sphere and hit the window?

Your choice of colors and lighting is very nice, and the picture is very pleasant to look at. I like it, but keep working on it...

[RTK]

Tim,

Nice work! I especially love the deep, lush red!

Thumbs up!

[masque]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Derek,I will work on the reflection, do you think the top of the window reflection should be more rounded?" <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Now you mention it I think it should; curving down from the top left quite steeply. Its hard to guess, just a matter of what looks right. If I was going to be pedantic I would also reccomend that the oval highlight on the vase has a linear transparancy applied to fade it out towards the bottom as the highlight would, for the most part, only catch the part of the curve facing upwards. Thats the advantage of drawing like this, you can keep playing until you perfect it or get fed up with it and move on to something else.

[TimS]

Derek,
Can I bother you to look at the changes and let me know if I am going in the right direction?

Thanks Wayne for your comments, if I can get the reflections correct I think it may be one of my favorites.
tim

[TimS]

Derek and Terry,
first of all, thanks for working with me.
I havn't given up yet. Here is my latest.
Terry, I'm not sure what your telling me, but I've been holding a Christmas orniment up to windows for the past week and this is what I see in the reflection.
Am I getting closer????

[masque]

Tim
I think the window highlight you pointed out looks a lot better with the slant at the top, though it could perhaps be more curved as its wrapping around the stem of the vase. The curve on the joss sticks looks better, but as the vase and other objects appear quite close together, I think the reflection should be much bigger, like the reflection in the back of a spoon, also the reflection seems to high up the bowl somehow as though its floating. Test relections of objects on a spoon to get an idea of how they might look in a curved surface.
Fun eh?
derek

[masque]

Tim
I think it looks a lot beter. Its hard to suggest anything else without being too critical.
I still get the impression that the black sphere on the dish is still slightly to high up the side of the vase but thats hard to judge and I think the oval highlight on the side of the vase should fade out more towards the base and be softened with a little feathering. Perhaps the top of the window highlight should curve more as it wraps around the neck of the vase though the way that fades toward the base is what I mean for the eliptical highlight.
Keep going, its looking great.
Derek

[John Rayner]

Very nice tim. Simple and serene...