Icon-A-Day, Icon # 11, CD Drive

Sometimes you dont need the Mesh Fill.

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 by mormegil | Discussion: Icons

A Icon a day Keeps the Creative
Icon 11 (CD Drive)

    Once more I am pushing the end of the day, but I have just finished icon #11, and uploaded all of the tutorial images. The hardest part of today's icon is the step by step. As I did this icon I keep saying to myself, "how the hell am I going to explain this?" Well let's see if I can pull it off.
 
Step 1:

First I use some rectangles and a circle, and tweak them into a general outline of my CD icon. I wanted to show you can do cool stuff in Corel without the Mesh tool, so I am going to do this one with mostly Gradients, and Transparences.



 Step 2:

First things first; I copy my fill from the other CD icons I have done, and apply it to my Circle. Then I Draw up a few extra shapes, all rectangles, and form up the back of out CD Tray.
Then I copy the back of the tray, and Trim it with the CD.
Then I give that a grey fill and using the Interactive Transparency tool apply a Cement Texture to it giving us some grit in the back. of the tray.
 Step 3:

Using white and black circles that have been set to 50% Transparency, I make some grooves in the plastic in the disk.


 



 
Step 4:

Once I am happy with the back of the tray, I give it a Shadow and a Reflection using the same techniques as in the prior icons.




 

 Step 5

Now for the front of the tray. The main body of the tray is just a rectangle that I have trimmed down a bit, and given a white fill, and an Interactive Transparency.

 		 Step 6:

Now I give the front of the tray some detail with White & Black, transparent rectangles.



Step 7:

To finish it off, so that the face of the tray is visible, I make a copy of the main face again. Make it a bit less transparent and send it to the back.


 
Finished Icon Image.


Download Finished Icon Here

I know that this tutorial may seem to need more explanations, but the truth is that it all boils down to a lot of Gradient filled boxes and Transparent boxes. I will try and do a video on this technique as soon as possible.

Read the other Icon-A-Day Articles: Icon # 1, Icon # 2, Icon #3, Icon # 4, Icon #5, Icon # 6, Icon # 7, Icon # 8, Icon # 9, Icon #10.

CorelDRAW for Skinners videos: Mesh Fill 101, Gloss 101.

And don't forget to check for all the Icon-A-Day icons as they get made, in the Miscellaneous Icons Gallery at Wincustomize.com
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horiz0n
Reply #1 Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:57 AM
"Once more I am pushing the end of the day, but I have just finished icon #11"

Even God took a break on the 7th day =D

-OZZY-
Reply #2 Wednesday, January 19, 2005 5:01 AM
again very nice....are you going to do a video about the rules
of shadows, reflections and that sort of things, to make objects
look more realistic ??

i81b4u-uc
Reply #3 Wednesday, January 19, 2005 6:55 AM
Wow, I hope one day with the help from your videos that I can do something like this.I have really been trying, but am having trouble with having the bottom shadow and dropshadow come out transparent after taking it through Icon Developer.
Don't know if my little pic will show up on the side of this but if it does it's of an icon I've been working on .

mormegil
Reply #4 Wednesday, January 19, 2005 7:24 AM
Yes, I have the shadow video already made, and will be doing the Reflection on next. And should have them up this week.

Corky_O
Reply #5 Wednesday, January 19, 2005 7:50 AM
Thank you, Paul.

-OZZY-
Reply #6 Wednesday, January 19, 2005 8:18 AM
very cool......i hope you inspired other artists to do some tutorial video

i81b4u-uc
Reply #7 Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:15 AM
Thanks Paul, I can't wait to see them. Ozzy, I hope the same thing. I've learned more than I expected with Paul's videos as I have lived in Corel Draw since he posted the mesh tools video. Now hopefully someone will be kind enough to do a windowblinds video tutorial .

joeKnowledge
Reply #8 Wednesday, January 19, 2005 6:14 PM
You male it seem so simple... I am still trying though.

zman3
Reply #9 Tuesday, February 22, 2005 6:16 PM
anyone know how to get that graduient on the cd i cant seem to get it to look like that

mormegil
Reply #10 Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:08 PM
The gradent on the CD is a Conical Fill, with several colors in it.

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