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I made this at work recently, as part of a linear animation. We needed some clip-art style images to represent products in a very generic way. I ended up drawing this CD, some test tubes, and a few different boxes and logos to try and represent the concept of products without showing any specific brand. I was actually pretty happy with how the CD in particular came out, so I wanted to post it here. I am also offering it as a resource for anyone who wants it for clip-art (or as part of an icon set, whatever), so PM me for the original PNG file with alpha

This drawing took about an hour from start to finish. Looking at a CD face-on like this, there are a lot more colors than you might expect, and it was actually quite tricky to get all the refractions looking correct. I got the basic effect by filling a lot of horizontal boxes with color, and then applying Distort -> Polar Coordinates to make them radiate correctly. After looking at this in comparison to a real CD, I think I might have gotten the center holes a little bit out of proportion, but it's hard to tell.

I've been doing a lot of work lately, but I just haven't been posting much of it. I have a few photos I keep meaning to put up here, and a couple more Flash portfolio pieces that are all done, so hopefully I'll have time soon to get my Gallery up to date.

Description
I made this at work recently, as part of a linear animation. We needed some clip-art style images to represent products in a very generic way. I ended up drawing this CD, some test tubes, and a few different boxes and logos to try and represent the concept of products without showing any specific brand. I was actually pretty happy with how the CD in particular came out, so I wanted to post it here. I am also offering it as a resource for anyone who wants it for clip-art (or as part of an icon set, whatever), so PM me for the original PNG file with alpha

This drawing took about an hour from start to finish. Looking at a CD face-on like this, there are a lot more colors than you might expect, and it was actually quite tricky to get all the refractions looking correct. I got the basic effect by filling a lot of horizontal boxes with color, and then applying Distort -> Polar Coordinates to make them radiate correctly. After looking at this in comparison to a real CD, I think I might have gotten the center holes a little bit out of proportion, but it's hard to tell.

I've been doing a lot of work lately, but I just haven't been posting much of it. I have a few photos I keep meaning to put up here, and a couple more Flash portfolio pieces that are all done, so hopefully I'll have time soon to get my Gallery up to date.