Mesh fill is a powerfull tool to create realistic drawing of natural or artificial picture. The tool may seem difficult to use at first, but once we know its basic concepts, you can create realistic effects.
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| picture : Activate the mesh tool and set the mesh tool property |
In this tutorial, we will create a simple leaf using the mesh fill tool.
Before we start, we need to understanding the basic concepts of mesh fill :
1. You must always try to make an image as simple as possible. Complex images are made with a few simple images.
2. By default, the mesh fill is applied in a vertical or horizontal direction, so it may not always have the direction that you want. You can make sure that the mesh fill matches the perspective, the shadows, the direction of the light, and other properties of the object by rotate the object before applying the mesh fill.
Let's Start..!
1. Create a leaf object. You can use the line tool and curving the line segment to shape of leaf. Color it with green.
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| picture 1. create simple shape of leaf |
2. Rotate the object that we created earlier, so the leaf and the mesh fill matches the perspective, shadows light, and other properties.
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| picture 2. Rotate to matches with the perspective, shadows light, and other properties |
3. Click the Interactive Mesh Tool to activating the interactive mesh tool
Change the horizontal and/or vertical mesh fill properties with the value we want. With the freehand mesh fill property selected, create curve that matches the perspective of the leaf. Curves the node of the mesh matches with the contour of the leaf.
With the nodes selected, fill it with the matches color.
Change the horizontal and/or vertical mesh fill properties with the value we want. With the freehand mesh fill property selected, create curve that matches the perspective of the leaf. Curves the node of the mesh matches with the contour of the leaf.
With the nodes selected, fill it with the matches color.
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| picture 3. Fill color |
4. We can applying to other leaf and create a sprig of leaves.
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| picture 4. a sprige of leaf |
When making the leaves, of course not that simple when making indentation curve, but it will be even more complicated if we want a more realistic form. We need to make many parts separately. (picture 6)
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| picture 5. little more modification |
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| picture 6. complex mesh fill to create more realistic |
After that, we can modify it by adding drops of water drops on the surface. Drops of water drops is made also by using a mesh fill tool
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| Picture 7. Adding it with water drops |
picture taken from : Ariel Garaza DÃaz for the tutorial pictures
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