Still life with Bottle

[dk_art]

I'm just doing a still life for fun in XaraX. It's not finished yet and who knows what it will look like when I feel it's done :-) ... here's the first two stages ( and the latest stage as an attachment);

David King
www.dkingdesign.com

http://www.dkingdesign.com/stuff/xarax/sl_feb05a.jpg

http://www.dkingdesign.com/stuff/xarax/sl_feb05b.jpg

[dk_art]

I'm just doing a still life for fun in XaraX. It's not finished yet and who knows what it will look like when I feel it's done :-) ... here's the first two stages ( and the latest stage as an attachment);

David King
www.dkingdesign.com

http://www.dkingdesign.com/stuff/xarax/sl_feb05a.jpg

http://www.dkingdesign.com/stuff/xarax/sl_feb05b.jpg

[ivca]

I like "D", but i'd stay away from the glowing orange, unless of course that bottle had iodine in it [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Suggestion, I myself always had a propensity for realism, so for the heck of it - Ctrl-K the orange disk and give it a fractal cloud or plasma fill and scale the fill down (interactively), and make it course. Give it (the cloud fill or fractal plasma), a dark red and white color, then send it back ONE (CTRL/shift-B). Then throw a flat transparency setting on the front orange disk. Try different apply modes ...

This is a quick sample fo what I mean.

Keep it going D, and have fun ...

Wayne

[dk_art]

Thanks for the suggestion. Iodine in the bottle is just the thing I need to set this right :-D.

But seriously , I'll keep the orange but I would like to give it some sortof texture ( not really bumpy like a real orange but more like a ripply section that fades out ) . Also , I haven't touched the underneaths of them so they look kinda "floaty". But I want to make the whole thing glowing and stylized. Anyway , it's interesting what effects one can come up with and I think I'll save BMP copies of various stages of this and then when I come to a stage I think is finished I can make a slide show of it all. Who knows , maybe at the end it would all convert into a realistic scene. that would make kindof a neat transition to watch :-).

David K
www.dkingdesign.com

[jclements]

D'King,

I like the style a LOT. The colors and texture already evoke good "feelings". I think you are on the road to a winner.