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eyewoo
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About 10 years ago I made a picture using CorelDRAW 4. That was before I knew anything about Photoshop. I've always wanted to redo the picture in Photoshop... so here it is - a broken wine glass on a piano keyboard.
Digitally painted using a Wacom tablet and Photoshop 6.
Detail 1
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Reference Photo
Initial Trace |
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Awetopsy
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| Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 2:37 pm |
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Oh my... great work Eyewoo.
I love the rippled refraction of the keys in the glass stand... awesome effect.
my only crit would be that the wood of the piano on the bottom doesnt really seem like would because there are strokes up and down which seem to cross the grain of the wood. (make sense?)
still an awesome peice of work. very nice indeed.
[ May 09, 2002: Message edited by: Awetopsy ] |
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FuzzBeast
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| Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 3:12 pm |
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| Hmm, for some reason, that wine glass reminds me of the cover for that new stephen king book, everything's eventual, and i think it's really, really cool. |
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the_monkey
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| Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 9:33 pm |
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wow excellent.
this may be a lame question, but i have diffuculty drawing my lines as straight as you. i usually can draw pretty straight lines on paper, but using a tablet is different. any suggestions? |
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Malachi Maloney
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 3:06 am |
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Great work. 
~M~ |
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Mr. T
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 4:34 am |
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there is a line across the white keys, just on the edge of the black ones... possibly a perspective line that you forgot to erase?
kickass work |
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nevanlinna
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 4:35 am |
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Just an exellent piece!!!
VERY NICE!
some questions.
did you use ref?
did you sketch it with tablet, or inc/pencil and scan? |
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Germ01
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 4:45 am |
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| This is a great piece and a refreshing subject matter! I really love the way you illustrated the keys. Great work as always. Oh yeah! my parents have the exact same piano! |
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eyewoo
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 5:22 am |
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Awetopsy... thanks for the comment. re: the wood... It doesn't reaslly show well on the ref photo, but there are actually vertical and horizontal grain colorations on the wood.
FuzzBeast... I'll look for the book. Maybe I'll have a copyright infringement thingy to deal with... I did the original keywine 10 years ago and it was published here and there...
the_monky... draw staright lines with Photoshop? Why? ... make a point with a brush tool (or eraser)... move to another point and hold down the shift key while making the second point... Photoshop draws the line from one to the other, straight as can be...
Thanks Malachi...
Mr. T. Thanks... re: the line... it is actually there. Take a close look at the photo ref. ... The piano was built prior to 1920. Back then the key tops were made from actual ivory cut retangles and pieced together -- pieces cut to size for the areas between the black keys and for the areas in front of the black keys.
nevanlinna... I used a ref and a simple onion skin tracing technique. Check the links under the image. There is one for the ref and one that shows the initial trace. After the initial trace, the painting is all eyeballed -- i.e. no photo overpainting.
Germ01... Thanks... This piano was originally purchased by my grandparents in 1921. For a number of years during the '70s and early '80s I had it in a recording studio that I owned. Now it is in my home... and one of my really nice things to have around... |
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ARTEmio
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 1:46 pm |
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Great Realistic piece. the light is superb. A very complex subject!
[]'s Artemio. |
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-HoodZ-
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 3:27 pm |
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absolutely beautiful  |
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Molako_Plus
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 5:59 pm |
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COREL DRAW RULEZZZZ.....lol
once again eyewoo i must say a line of those eyeball happy faces wont do this piece any justice...
how long did it take you to do this piece...and can we see teh old version of it?....i really like vector art |
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eyewoo
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 6:35 pm |
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Molako...
Choosing between CorelDRAW and Illustrator, I choose CorelDRAW... but I don't really do much vector stuff anymore. I like color defining shape (bitmaps) rather than shape defining color (vectors).
...here's the original CorelDRAW piece... a TIF export...
...and a detail that shows the vectored objects...
[ May 10, 2002: Message edited by: eyewoo ] |
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