I did this for the Challenge forum to create an eye, but since I used only Xara Extreme to draw this I thought I'd post it also to this forum.
---Maya
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Eye - Xara
I did this for the Challenge forum to create an eye, but since I used only Xara Extreme to draw this I thought I'd post it also to this forum.
---Maya
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Re: Eye - Xara
Looks credible to me. A small highlight over the iris/pupil would give it a final bit of photorealism.
Gary W. Priester
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Re: Eye - Xara
Thanks Gary!Okay here's the updated one...
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
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Re: Eye - Xara
Both nice but I do not see the difference.
Richard
Re: Eye - Xara
Very nice work, good detail. Simple highlight makes a vast difference.
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Re: Eye - Xara
Incredible Maya! Can you share how you did the iris?
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Re: Eye - Xara
Great job Maya. That looks super good.
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Re: Eye - Xara
Thanks so much for giving this a look and reply/views everyone!
I think I like the eye with the extra subtle highlight at the pupil best, as suggested by Gary to try. It's a tiny change, but looks to me to bring a bit more of a 3D effect to the roundness of the eye at the cornea surface.
Ron, the way I approached doing the iris coloring was to start with a circle feathered to soften the outside edge in a grayed greenish-blue then overlayed this with a lighter cloned circle in a more yellowish green and made smaller around the pupil area. I used feathering and transparency colors a lot to get the basic iris then drew a rather random sawtooth small square shape in the lighter and darker colors which I added flat transparencies and color changes to along with adjustments in rotation and size/shaping to create the striations in the iris around it. I took the pupil and cloned it transparent just to get the line ring and color it for a bit of depth to the pupil. The other highlight shapes are just flat transparencies with more crisp edges for shine effect and overlaying eyelashes for more reflectance. I think that about covers what I did. A few other greyed shadings/shadows around on the white of the eye were extended into the colored edges also. I hope that helps.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
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Re: Eye - Xara
Maya this eye is something amazing in vector, like it very much. So clean, deep, it is beautiful.
+1 for putting to Xara Outsider
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Re: Eye - Xara
Absolutely beautiful.
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