Object of the Fortnight #5 – Wrench/Spanner – Winners

[toe_head2001]

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Edited April 26, 2017 by toe_head2001

[toe_head2001]

1st Place: @Pixey and @Woodsy with 14 votes

2nd Place: @MJW with 12 votes

3rd Place: @AndrewDavid with 6 votes

[MJW]

Congratulations to Pixie and Woodsy for their excellent entries. I was particularly impressed by the smooth curvature for the cross-section of Pixie's entry. If it's not spilling any secrets, I'd appreciate a brief summary of the techniques used. In particular, were the reflections and highlights manually drawn, or was some more automatic method used to produce them? Both the winning entries did a very good job of handling that tricky 15° bend in the box end, which gave me fits for the off-angle view. Congratulations, too, to AndrewDavid. (And even though his second entry wasn't really a combo wrench, the reflections on the top of each end are very well done.)

[Pixey]

Congratulations @Woodsy and @AndrewDavid .  Thank you too for the votes everyone .

 

Thank you @MJW

This was one of the hardest and most time-consuming pieces I’ve ever made.  (The other was my Hugh Jackman portrait).

1.        I outlined the spanner of my choice (from the web) in ShapeMaker.

2.     Then I switched between the techniques used for making  Gold and Chrome from these two tutorials by Yellowman:

         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc4MskAbrW0&t=456s            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDbG7-GToZk&t=269s

3.      I also hand-drew (line-curve tool) a lot of the highlights on both ends in white and black.

4.     The ‘dotted’ effect down the barrel was pure fluke (not seen too well in the smaller rendition of the entry).  It appeared when I used some of the colors in Gradient

         Mapping  that @Remake recently posted:

https://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/111046-presets-for-gradient-mapping/&

 

Oops:  My bad ........ Huge thanks to @toe_head2001 for hosting   

 

Edited April 27, 2017 by Pixey
Forgot to thank Toey (blush)

[AndrewDavid]

Congrats to you as well  @Pixey @Woodsy and @MJW

 

@MJW and @Pixey Thanks to both of you. Finally found the leader board due to a tie. 

 

Speaking of ties - who gets to select the next object? On to the next one......................

 

 

Edited April 27, 2017 by AndrewDavid

[Woodsy]

Congrats Pixey and the placers! Thanks MJW, Pixey, and Andrewdavid! Pixey and I chose an object. Just waiting for Toe-head to post it.

Thanks Toe-head for hosting the competition.

[MJW]

5 hours ago, Pixey said:

This was one of the hardest and most time-consuming pieces I’ve ever made . . .

 

Thanks for the very helpful explanation, Pixey! Also thanks to the links to the YouTube videos. I'll have to watch some more of those.

[Seerose]

 @Pixey and @Woodsy  ,   @MJW ,  @AndrewDavid!   Congratulations to you all.