theKeeper: Q. Metal Knob tutorial

[John1]

After step 1-4 I have nothing that looks like a knob yet.
After step 5 things get worse.
Are you sure you meant to write this -> "Now start at the bottom right and draw a rough wavey line up to the topright corner. There's no 'perfect' line here... just do a rough wavey one that's good enough."
PS. For the sake of making things clear, I'm marking the wavey line on a screenshot, because of problems I had (see next post).

Thanks for your help

 

[John1]

"Now start at the bottom right and draw a rough wavey line up to the topright corner. There's no 'perfect' line here... just do a rough wavey one that's good enough."

Look at my screenshot after I did this.
The wave line drawn with the pencil tool is not visible and the original diagonal line (bottom/left to top/right) is still visible.

 

[Stroker]

Just a guess -
Start at the lower-left and wiggle your way to the upper-right.

 

[theKeeper]

hahaha aaa man... ya sorry bout that John i guess i should've been more explicit there. I meant you should follow the default line -- bottom left to top right.

Actually i'm now seeing a lot of confusing spots. DOH! [doh] That's what i get for doing these things at 4am. [sleepy] I'll change all that right now!

Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

 

[John1]

Thanks, I'll give it another try

 

[Moth]

Nice Tutorial, Mark!

I played around with it and liked what I got. I then tried to come up with the ridges a lot of radio dials have. I'm not sure if I got it. Let me know what you think. ( I used a custom thin brush and stroked the path.)

 

[theKeeper]

Ya Moth that's a nice touch. They just look a little off-center to my eye...? Perhaps try center aligning everything and see if it is off or not.

 

[Moth]

Here's a re-do. I tried to keep everything centered.

 

[theKeeper]

aaa yes, that's better. Excellent.

 

[Moth]

Thanks! 8))

 

[ljiljana]

Moth Very nice!

Mark Thanks for the tut.

 

[Solsonic]

Hi everyone, and thanks to the keeper for the tut.
Here's my attempt at the "KNOB". I couldn't get it to look like yours, but what the hey,right?

 

[theKeeper]

Naa that's a great effort Solsonic, nothing wrong with that. Looks like you got through the tute just fine.

And there's also nothing wrong with having some originality. [excited]

 

[Solsonic]

Thanks Mark., you da man. 8))

 

[Moth]

I like what you've done very much, Solsonic.

 

[Solsonic]

Thanks Moth, I appreciate it. I also like what you have done with your knob, especially the rivits. B7