Bowl Tutorial


Bowl

The power of Photogenics lies in the fact that hardly any hand drawing is necessary. So, let's have a go at this antique brass bowl.

-Open a black buffer, and put in a large white filled circle. You'll find the proper tool easily in the toolbox. With a long, thin, horizontal filled rectangle, and a long, thin, horizontal filled oval you create the bottom of the bowl.

- the top of course is still round, so, draw a larger horizontal filled rectangle to cut off half of the circle. Create perspective with a horizontal white oval. Inside this one you place a black oval, and make sure that you leave a thin white line at the top. It's all a matter of aiming.....

-Clone this picture by pressing Right Amiga C, or using clone from the project menu. Put the copy in the Alpha channel

-mix a nice warm yellow e.g. HSB 29, 255, 255 Colour the bowl. Darken up your yellow by moving the B slider to the left, 145 will do. Use this tone to draw the shadows on the side and the bottom. From now on remember the the light in your painting comes from the Northeast!

Now for the background.

-Load a fractal the same size as your painting from the Effects window.

-With Pespective (Effects) and crop (Image Menu) create the basis for the bowl. You may have to use Scale from the Image Menu to keep the right buffer size.

-Put the bowl in the Second channel, and compose (Image Menu) the bowl slightly off centre to the left. Now you have room to add another feature at a later stage. You can make the necessary corrections with the Blend Out facility.

-Clone this picture, and on the copy, cover the top right to fractal with a white filled rectangle. In the same manner cover the bottom part with a black rectangle. Take this into the Alpha Channel.

-Load Brick Red from the colour window and darken it up a bit. Open the Trans.Gradient window and chose Left-to-Right. With a large filled circle colour the background. The circle should go outside your buffer!

- Do the same for the other side, setting Right-to-Left, with HSB 14,213,223.

-If you like you can do some scumbling by clever use of the left and right mouse button.

-There is no more use for the Alpha Channel now.

-Fill the inside of the bowl wit a filled oval and make the the shadows by hand. A clever use of darker and lighter tones will make a brass bowl!

-For the sparkle: Neon brush, colour white, Straight line tool, and a brush 5, 39, 10

Good Luck!

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