[Limited edition Leica M-P Grip by Rolf Sachs]

1 hour ago, jmwellborn said:

@VectorVonDoom and that table tennis bat rubber must have taken hours to create. Spectacular!

Thanks, it probably did take nearly as long as the main body but wasn't too bad.

[Limited edition Leica M-P Grip by Rolf Sachs]

This one was covered in table tennis bat rubber and the text on the top plate was also red.

[Leica M3, Summarex 8.5cm]

5 hours ago, Malcolm Clark said:

That's awesome.  Thank you for sharing it.

The only problem is that it makes me want (a real) one of my own......

A lot cheaper drawing them than owning them but they are nice to use.

[Leica M3, Summarex 8.5cm]

A bit of tidying up including adding the external viewfinder. That will do.

[Leica M3, Summarex 8.5cm]

A quick one keeping things simple, a few conical gradients etc. Might tidy things up if I decide I like it.

 

 

 

 

 

[Nikon F camera]

1 hour ago, Aammppaa said:

Your work is always so impressive to me, but something about this one is even more remarkable! Perhaps it is the accuracy of the numbers wrapped around all those surfaces, or the grain of the leather, or the soft satin sheen of the brushed metal. Absolutely beautiful. 

Thanks. I got the text pretty much warped correctly using the warp tool just some tweaks. The leather is sort of a bodge. I used one of the few vector textures that I’d created then layered/flipped/set blend modes. Didn’t look quite like I wanted and ended up with a grey gradient at the top set to reflect blend. Whilst the pattern isn’t the same as the real thing it looks pretty much like you’d expect. Didn’t want to spend ages doing it “properly”.

[Nikon F camera]

I don't usually bother showing the wireframe any more but some find it interesting. Turned off the leather texture and background and zoomed in a bit so you can see the camera lines.

[Nikon F camera]

5 hours ago, jmwellborn said:

@VectorVonDoom Stunning!

Thanks, glad you like.

[Nikon F camera]

Decided to do this without blurs again whilst trying to keep it realistic. It made some things trickier but saved the time in not having to set a million blurs. Used AD v2 for the warped text.

 

[Polaroid SX-70 Camera]

15 hours ago, MxHeppa said:

really nice even we not have maybe all tools from bigger apps we can archive really amazing results. do you used Designer or/and Photo ?

I only use the basic tools anyway. I only do vector so Designer.

[Polaroid SX-70 Camera]

Thanks Mark. I didn't really know how I wanted to do it exactly other than I didn't want to use blurs and so just did it. I thought it turned out OK. Might revisit it later as I have a few ideas to try.

[Polaroid SX-70 Camera]

My idea of flat, no blurs so tried to blend things in a bit by using shapes and blend modes.

[1975 Skoda 130 RS Monte Carlo Rally version]

I thought I'd try and do something with Inkscape now v1.3 is out. Cars are "easy" if long winded so I though that would be a good project to try it out on. Even installed Linux to give it the best chance but it's just too slow, clunky (like the coders don't actually use it, but they're doing it for free so not complaining too much) and a bit buggy. So I gave up after a couple of days and opened it in AD v2 then copied it in to AD v1 (as v1 wouldn't open it) and did it in there instead. 

Windows AD was grinding to a halt near the end, should just use my Mac.

[1957 Plymouth Fury]

Couldn't decide what to do next so did this. People on FB said about the Christine movie that featured a '58 Fury, not watched it but it's now on my list.

[North Foreland Lighthouse]

34 minutes ago, William Overington said:

The following may be of interest to readers.

North Foreland - Wikipedia

LB&SCR H2 class - Wikipedia

William

 

It was the last manned lighthouse before they all became automated.

[North Foreland Lighthouse]

[Quick Bladerunner mess around]

[Lotus 108]

[A Little Art Deco]

The Art Deco entrance to the Lowell Pool in Boise Idaho. Designed in 1953 by Wesley Bintz.

[Fri 13th. Cats "easter egg" in the style panel]

Thanks but no thanks. I'm fine with a bit of fun, who isn't? But that's more of a pain than fun as you can't easily see which one to pick. I don't care if it's just the odd day I don't need slowing down any more than I usually am (I've got literally thousands of objects to do with styles this time). Do it more like the shapes panel and make it a user decision.

[Bookshop]

14 minutes ago, tzvi20 said:

unless there is a brick wall that is vector in the stock library

I don't want some random brick wall someone else has done though.

[Bookshop]

2 minutes ago, tzvi20 said:

you can use a mask to paint in a wall with damaged bricks:)

I know but that's not vector and still wouldn't look exactly the same.

[Bookshop]

I've done as much as I'm going to. I was going to try and do the brickwork as close to real as possible but it was going to be a ton of work, bad condition bricks plastered over in places too, so I chickened out and simplified it. Think it still looks OK'ish.

 

 

[Bookshop]

23 minutes ago, jmwellborn said:

Love the Open sign, the hours and credit cards. What a splendid touch to an incredible creation!!

Thank-you. I did add the text last night. On to the complicated/more fiddly parts now.

[Bookshop]

Weekend update. Finished the book covers and the door windows insides/reflections. Have some text to do on the window stickers sometime. Working on the first floor window reflections then on to the brickwork.