September 2014 Tips and Tricks - Creating illustrations With Only Extrudes

[csehz]

Thanks Gare for those blend examples, it inspired to take the challenge how that hamburger would look only by extrudes



ExtrudeHamburger.xar

[Rik]

That's brilliant, csehz.

But, I don't think it's a chicken burger?!
If it had been, I would have bought it from you!

[csehz]

But, I don't think it's a chicken burger?!

Well somehow maybe red wine looks more fitting to it and not white one, so that has to be rather beef

[csehz]

I guarantee that if you experiment with these "drawings" for a little while, you'll learn something you can make your own and put in your work. Blends are a beautiful way to shade non-symmetrical shapes.

Being not too practiced drawing with blends but so tried that experiment, maybe once would be worth to have a With Only Blends topic on XaraXone, how to draw in 3D with blends or something like that


BlendHamburger.xar

Gare thanks and understood so that blends have the big advantage that stays everything in vector

[wizard509]

That's great cshez.

[Gare]

I'm a little torn at this time, because although I love the idea of using only extrudes, or only contours or blends—which is great thing to help you study— at the same time when you put sime of the tools together, you'll get better results I think, in less time.

Here's the same burger with a thick shake, and you can see in wireframe, when a gradient was easier and quicker, I went that way.

Color gradients, blends, and transparencies= a very powerful effect.




Have a happy weekend, everyone!

-g

[csehz]

Color gradients, blends, and transparencies= a very powerful effect.

Absolutely true, assuming that those tools are in the hand of masters

I am still on the level rather trying to follow your .xar file That shake is very clever, including the group of those red stripes and those inverse circles, or the shake inside, thanks for it and wishing the same happy weekend

[Gare]

One last thing before I get outa here for a couple of days and get the October Xara Xone up:

There are always, always more than one way to do an effect with Xara's tools.

The straw for example—csehz, thank you for pointing that out—could be done with a transparency set to Bleach mode to do the highlights, or the hard way by creating a complex gradient for the stripes.

Here's my final gift in the fast food drawing class:



It's very hard to get a greasy look without spending a lot of time with the Transparency tool and actually looking at photographs of stuff. Ice cubes are also difficult—there are a lot of different textures that are different from one location of the shape to the other. The butter I did on the slice of toast in my gallery wasn't successful because I was lazy; same deal with the fries. Feel free to embellish the piece!

And keep them on your screen and not on your dinner table.

-g

[wizard509]

That's brilliant, csehz.

But, I don't think it's a chicken burger?!
If it had been, I would have bought it from you!

So you want a chicken burger huh Rik. OK here ya go. I used cshez's hamburger and altered it some. Hope you don't mind cshez. Almost the entire thing is photo manipulation well not all.

[Gare]

Larry, is that a prank rubber chicken sandwich?

-g