Gold - with Silver and Bronze Medals the easy way!

[Rik]

A short while back, I needed to draw a Gold and a Silver medal.
So, I drew a representation of the medals being used at the Sochi games.
Whilst the medals are not accurate, they served my purpose.

I did the Gold medal.
And then I needed to do a Solver one.

So, I wondered if there was another way of doing this in Xara?!
Something a bit easier than having to change all the colours, and the all shading, and all the... well, you know!

Here's what I did:

For the Silver medal:
1. I cloned the Gold medal (not the ribbon) and grouped it. Changed the colour of the grouped medal to #955803.
2. Used the Live Effects tool and applied the 'Hue' effect from the 'Colour Filter' - set the 'Saturation' value down to -80.
3. Drew a circle of the same size as the medal. Coloured it light blue (I set the value #83b7ff).
4. Applied a 'Hue' transparency to this circle and turned the transparency down a bit to a value of 11%

Then for the Bronze, it was nearly the same process:
1. I cloned the Gold medal (not the ribbon) and grouped it. Changed the colour of the grouped medal to #ac7a06.
2. Used the Live Effects tool and applied the 'Hue' effect from the 'Colour Filter' - set the 'Saturation' value down to -42.
3. Drew a circle of the same size as the medal. Coloured it light pink (I set the value #ffcbcb).
4. Applied a 'Stained Glass' transparency to this circle.

I hope you will agree that the results are pretty convincing.
And I had fun along the way.

[gwpriester]

While you're at it, Rik, maybe you could do a silver one too.

Snarkiness aside (sorry), that's really helpful info.

[ber61]

They look great thanks for the mini tut.

[richinri]

Nice!

[Rik]

While you're at it, Rik, maybe you could do a silver one too.

Snarkiness aside (sorry), that's really helpful info.

Thanks for that Gary.
Though, you could have corrected the typoo!

[csehz]

That is very nice Rik, also thanks for the tips.

I know this medal well because also had some tries to reproduce before the Olympics But gave it up, because in the original that snowflake in the middle had so tricky lot of graphics and being too weak to complete those. Really congratulations

[handrawn]

very nice indeed Rik - way to go with those details

[stygg2003]

Great mini-tut. Rik, really excellent details and how did you create the snowflake with all its tricky designs as Csehz as mentioned. I trust those Olympic rings are inter-twined

Stygg

[Rik]

Thanks for all your comments, guys and gals.

I used the 'Quick Shape Tool' to do much of what looks like snowflakes.
For me, it was all about doing things as quickly as possible, and trying to use what I knew to get the desired result.

[wizard509]

Is that what color the bronze metal is Rik? Just asking because I know bronze comes in several shades but for some reason when I think of bronze I always picture dark bronze, even though I know better.