To paint a metal ball with Fireworks

Recently, we often read the document reviews of our site, there are many comments about using fireworks to paint the mass beetle, and many people think it is a fake tutorial with photos in reverse, of course, most of them are praised, and want detailed process and guidance, I want to say, it is not difficult to paint this kind of things with fireworks, Just watch carefully and have a little patience. When I included this tutorial, I did not doubt its authenticity, because each of us can do it. Well, let's start our fireworks simulation of the first step of the painting. Draw a metal ball
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Because most of my friends have not studied sketch, they have no habit of observing things in detail. So we have to explain before painting the focus of metal painting, metal is characterized by the difference between the light and shade, highlight is the embodiment of the important part of the texture, the other reflection will be relatively bright. If you have studied Japanese Paladin armor illustrations, there should be more feelings and tricks. The final sphere of light and shade is also a feature that everyone needs to observe before drawing.

The first step: Draw the background
Select the Circle tool, hold down the SHIFT key, in the screen, draw a positive circle, and then select the Fill tool, in the property panel, the fill mode to radial, and edit the fill style, such as the figure, this fill style includes four control color points, detailed production of your fill style, is your simulation success points. My main function of this style is to play the background, and the reflection of the ball is also spread out.

Step two, increase the dark part
Copy a circle, use the path Editing tool, and the combination of paths, punching, intersection, pruning and other commands, make a shape like the following, and give the figure as shown in the fill, and put in the position shown. The point of this step is to skillfully use the path tools and commands to get the shape you want, and give the appropriate padding. Note the parameters of the feather, as well as the choice of transparency.

Overlay the second layer of dark

Step three, add the High light section
And the dark part of the processing, just this time our shape is not so troublesome, draw an ellipse on the line, the main points of attention, is still high light feather. The more layers you stack, the more delicate your things will be, but pay attention to the theme of what you are showing, sometimes too fine, you will lose quality and strength, industry terminology is oil. In addition, there is a word, I think is also very incisive, "high light determines texture", we carefully observe the shape of high light, transition.

Overlay High Light

The fourth step is to increase the top and bottom reflections, as well as the middle part, and adjust the overall feeling.
　
Fifth step, fixed profile
We note that the use of feather, often beyond the ball or its intrinsic shape, at this time, the rational use of mask is very important, in fireworks, we can simply understand that paste into the object.
Select all the elements, ctrl+g, grouped into an object, copy a large circle, fill and fill all for nothing, put on the top, cut the combination of the ball, in the newly copied circle right button, choose paste Inside

Look at the different changes before and after the combination

Step sixth, increase the projection
The projection in the painting, is very important, in the plane performance three-dimensional shape, this element is also very important, can say that the projection determines the shape of the object, but also determines the position of the light source, as well as the state of the light source. You can observe that the same object in the fluorescent lamp, incandescent light, the sun, projection of the different feelings, there are different shapes of projection.

OK, our simulation ball is done, if you have any simulation works and experience tutorials, also welcome to publish.
Finally want to tell you a simple method, although the effect is almost, but only need to draw a circle fill on the line, you can realize the importance of the transition filling tool in the middle.