Ancient wisdom crystal used fireworks to "cast" ancient coins

China's ancient coin casting has thousands of years of cultural history. From the foundry technology, every dynasty is not lack of fine. Because I happen to have a northern and Southern dynasties when the North Zhou Dynasty "Yong Tong Universal" coins, and the coin because of the style of beauty, the seal of the work is known as the crown of the Six Dynasties coins. So this example takes this coin as the reference blueprint for you to explain the method of drawing ancient coins in fireworks.

Create a new white canvas with a resolution of 72,300*200 size. Then we'll draw the outer edge of the coin first. Use the Oval tool to draw two circles with 116*116 and 107*107 sizes, and then select two circles at the same time to align vertically and horizontally. Then use the "modify-combine path-punch" option to combine the two circles into a composite object. Then use the #414941 solid fill for the object, as shown in Figure 01.

Figure 1

To make the outer edge of the ancient coin have three-dimensional sense, we first add an "inner bevel" effect to the object, each setting is shown in Figure 02. Then use the "add clutter" effect, where the "number" is 7 and the "Color" is canceled.

Figure 2

Use the Ellipse tool to draw a circle of 107*107 size, select both horizontal and vertical when the circle is selected for the outer edge of the ancient coin, and then fill with a linear gradient for the circle, as shown in Figure 03.

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Figure 3

Using the Rectangle tool to draw a rectangle with a 39*36 size, and then align it horizontally and vertically, use the Modify-Combine path-punch option to form a new grouped object, as shown in Figure 04.

Figure 4

We will then use the "add clutter" effect of "number" 7 for this object to make the ancient coin have a rough texture of bronze, as shown in Figure 05.

Figure 5

Use the Rectangle tool to draw two rectangles that are 43*41 and 36*34 size, respectively. After you align the two rectangles horizontally and vertically, use the Modify-Combine path-punch option, and then use the no stroke solid fill of # 414941 for this composite object, as shown in Figure 06.

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Add an "inner bevel" effect to the object, which is set as shown in Figure 07. Then add a "number" of 7 "add clutter" effect.

Figure 7

Move the composite object of this rectangle to the center of the coin, then use the "Partial selection" tool to move the path node of the object appropriately , or you can use the Pen tool to add some nodes and then use the "Partial selection" tool to adjust it to the shape of Figure 08.

Figure 8

Since it is ancient coins, there will be some rust on the surface of the coin. And the most rust is the coin's upper left, lower left, upper right and lower right four places. To imitate the rust of these four places, we first use the pen tool to draw a closed path in the upper left position of the coin, as shown in Figure 09.

Figure 9

Then use the same method to draw three closed paths in the three positions on the lower left, upper right and lower right of the coins, as shown in Figure 10.

Figure 10

Each of these four closed paths is then populated and set as follows:

Upper left Path: Solid fill with #b1cdb6, feather value 9, use "number" for 8 "Add miscellaneous" special effects;

Left Lower path: Solid fill with #bdbe9f, feather value 12, use "Quantity" for 11 "add clutter" effect;

upper right path: filled with # 9DB9A2 with a feather value of 10, with a "number" of 7 "add clutter" effect;

Lower-right path: Solid fill with # a9ac9b, feather value 10, use ' Add Miscellaneous ' effect with ' quantity ' 7.

The effect is shown in Figure 11 after you complete this operation.

Figure 11

Then we will "cast" the words for the coins. Here need to "Han seal fan" This font, not installed this font of friends can be downloaded to the relevant website installation, or to use other fonts, such as "Chinese Xingkai" and so on.

With "Han seal fan" font played "Yong Tong Universal", the text object using #414941 solid fill, the other settings as shown in Figure 12.

Figure 12

Right-click the text object and choose Convert to Path from the pop-up menu. Then use the Modify-ungroup command to turn these four words into separate path objects. As shown in Figure 13.

Figure 13

Align the four words as shown in Figure 14.

Figure 14

In order to make the words on the coin "cast" more lifelike, next we have to deal with the text.

Hold down the SHIFT key to select the four words and then copy them. As you can see in the Layers panel, the four text objects that are copied are at the top of all the object layers, as shown in Figure 15.

Figure 15

We removed the "eye" flag from the top four object layers to temporarily hide the four text objects. Then go back to the canvas area, select the original four text objects again, and then use modify-change path-simplify to enter 3 in quantity. Then click "Modify-Change path-extend stroke" and make the following settings.

Figure 16

Next, use the "add clutter" effect and the "inner bevel" effect for each of the four objects, as shown in Figure 17, with the number 4.

Figure 17

Select the "Yong" word in these four objects to change its fill color from #414941 to a solid fill of #b0ccb5, as well as "pass", "Million" and "country" to be filled with a solid fill of "#ABB196", "#8BA58F" and "#AEBBAF" respectively. The effect is as shown in Figure 18 after completing this step.

Figure 18

Re-click on the "Eye" flag to display the four text objects hidden in front of us. Select the four objects and use the add pragma effect and the inner bevel effect for number 7, as shown in Figure 19.

Figure 19

With all the objects on the canvas selected, use the Modify-group option, and then use the drop shadow effect for the object, with the projection color # 575757, and the other settings as Figure 20.

Figure 20

So far the "casting" of ancient coins is done, and the final effect is shown below.

Figure 21

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