Painting tips: Draw a pen with flash

Skills

Today to you to write a tutorial, mainly about the performance of texture problems, but also want to take this to ask everyone, I am not so stupid practice.

Steps (Made in FLASHMX):

1 Create a new flash document.

2 "Insert"-"new symbol", named Pen.

3 will see a blank layer, which is named the "pen body surface."

4 Use the Line tool, arrow tool or part of the selection tool to hook the shape of the pen body, color can not be tube, because the final line is to be deleted.

5 and then that's the biggest problem with the color of my headache.

5.1 to embody the texture, it's better to use gradients, and it's easier to be sure to draw the pen closer to the cylindrical shape (except for the end of the pen), so the gradient is a linear gradient from top to bottom. Then the gradient from top to bottom should be deep-> shallow-> very deep, First from deep shallow is because the light shot to the surface of the cylinder, there are always some places is direct, and some places are oblique, so the degree of reflection on the light is different, and the following is very dark because of the following in natural conditions, is usually more difficult to shoot in the place.

( Note: The following color fills are the entire gradient area and the shape of the region coincide, with special instructions except)

5.2 But I find that this theory alone is not a good way to guide my color matching. I tried the gradient method above and found that I couldn't meet my requirements at all.

First of all I asked for a very deep place can not be too deep, so I tried the following color collocation (where the number represents the RGB value, Alpha is 100%)
This is the feeling of the cylinder, but the surface is not smooth enough to reflect the light is not strong (perhaps the end of the pen is very uncomfortable, because the end of the pen is ellipsoid, should be filled with radiation, so to be treated separately).

For this reason, I've turned the contrast of the color slightly larger

Although the light sense is still not strong, but I see the kind, in the daytime, dark part does not look deep, so I can not turn the color deeper. It really gives me a headache! I looked again carefully at the kind of pen, and found that the middle part of the brightness should be larger.

It was a lot better this time, but the overall feeling was still not bright enough.

5.3 again observed the object again, found that the high light part in fact, the area is not wide. It's a very narrow line, but it doesn't lack a gradient. So I try to narrow the middle of the area.

Light feels a lot better, but it's really out of the way, especially when you can't find a cylinder.
It is difficult to make the high light area wider, shaped like a cylinder, but not bright, to find a suitable balance between the light and the shape, and it is hard to see the figure in the vicinity of the equilibrium.
Look at it carefully again. It was found that although the high light region and the non-high light area of the color brightness difference is relatively large. But some areas near the high light area are still brighter, and seem to be the result of the high light stimulation of the eyes. So, in order not to affect the shape of the cylinder, I try to adjust the high light in a smaller area.

I always thought it was easy to make a feeling it's like a piece of paper on top of it, so it's a little stiff. No matter how you tune it, in a very narrow area, it doesn't feel like it's glowing, it's a note on the plane. If the adjustment area widens, it will lack a strong sense of light because the change is not sudden.

5.4 Depressed dead! What's the tune?!

Stretched, twisted his neck, but his eyes gazed at the pen, because in my heart, the determination to succeed has not wavered.
Turned and blinked, with a picture of two more pens in mind, one is completely against the image of natural light, one is completely give me the image of the body occlusion. All of a sudden I do not know what it feels like, but there is a feeling that there is only a difference between the two things, but enough to affect the pen in the eye texture image.
So I tried to put the pen back on the light, and then completely blocked the light. Well, there's something really bad about it. Oh, yes! It is a ray of light that is not born with a fountain pen, but a ray of sunshine given to it by heaven. The power of the Sun gives the pen an endless glow. Without it, the pen will be dim.
Here comes the inspiration! All I have to do is draw the feeling of the cylinder, and it's easy to to draw the feeling of a pen without light, and then I add another glow bar on the surface, and it doesn't affect the gradient fill that determines the shape of the pen. In simple terms, the shape and the light sense are handled independently of the two parts, Can solve the conflict between the two.
At this point, retrieve the original color of the most like the cylinder scheme.

And then add a high light area on this basis.

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