affinity designer Coffee cup

[Phil_rose]

Just a learning piece.

[BrianHermelijn]

Keep at it Phil! Doing one of these everyday or few times a week, eventually you will get used to the software/learn the basic of light. 

 

Cheers!

[gdenby]

Hi, Phil_rose,

Over all, it works. "It is too early... it is still dark. Where's the coffee? Ah there!"

Please take the following as being constructive, tho' rather nit picking.

The bright white curve highlight on the bottom half of the cup is not evident on the top portion. It also extends somewhat below the bottom line of the rest of the cup. The highlights on the "Coffee" lettering are slightly slanted, and not straight from the side. There is no luminous gradient across the letters. To get even "nittier" the band w. "Coffee" on it also does not have any trace of a highlight.

[Phil_rose]

Thanks for that. Is this any better?

[gdenby]

IMHO, yes! And changing "Coffee" to white makes getting a focus on it much easier.

[firstdefence]

Ok my 2 pence worth lol!

The base, edge of the lid and the top and bottom edge of the label could be curved to show a rounded 3D object, if the effect was to create a stylised 2D then ignore the last comment. I think the shading is a bit too dark and the base would probably look better squared off i.e no curve. I think the style lends itself to a more stylised vector with punchy contrasting colours. I'm not sure the brown label works, I get the coffee colour reference and its kind of in tonal contrast with the blue.

I think this is a half wants to be 3D and half wants to be a stylised vector.

You inspired me to have a go at this, I cheated a bit by using a costa cup image as a reference but the rest is all me hahaha!  I have saved the file with History to show you what I did, I tell you it took some tweaking deleting and trying different ways to get it looking as it does, I got round the label by putting the text vertically like Costa do (Sneaky Eh!) The little upside-down L shape on the lid I added as a last flash and filled white and then added transparency.

I had to look up how to spell Cappuccino lol! I got close with cappachino lol!
Cappuccino Cup.afdesign

[Phil_rose]

Wow, that puts me to shame! Except that I'm practising mindfulness and being kind to myself! I'm trying to learn to draw which I absolutely cannot do so think that this is super helpful. I do have one question. How did you make the squiggle? I see it is known as "group" and is a child object one named Curve. Did you make a single squiggle and then reproduce it over and over and then group and rotate the whole thing and converted to a bitmap? It would be interesting to know. Thank you so much for doing this is genuinely inspiring.

Phil

[firstdefence]

18 minutes ago, Phil_rose said:

Did you make a single squiggle and then reproduce it over and over and then group and rotate the whole thing

exactly, but I didn't turn it into a bitmap, I duplicated the cup shape so I would have a background for the squiggles to have some contrast against and used the group of squiggles as a mask, so, I placed the group of squiggles above one of the cup shapes and right-clicked and selected Mask to below. The background cup shape I changed the gradient so that it was slightly different to the squiggles.