How to Create a Super Shiny Pencil Icon – Screencast
The Pencil is one of the visual metaphors most used to express creativity. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw a pencil icon. We’ll have a look at gradients, selection tools, and basic transform operations. Let’s have some fun with this – Eren Goksel
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Not sure about shadow on mirror though…
Hi, thanks for such a great tutorial! With that being said…I am stuck at the end. When I create a layer mask on the reflection layer and drag the gradient, nothing happens. I can’t seem to create a fade in the reflection. I did everything step by step except I created a group for the “pencil” merge, then duplicate it and merge that group instead of merging the layers since I prefer to have them to go back on. I can create a gradient on the reflection layer but not the layer mark. Please help if you can. Thank you.
Tutorial looks cool…but nest time reduce the usage of “shortcuts” in tutorials….
I like the tutorial its a nice change of the “usual” tutorials i watch^^
my outcome
http://fc13.deviantart.com/fs38/f/2008/334/3/7/Pencil_Artwork_by_JustIRaziel.png
Im scared my pencil doesn’t look like a pencil.
SSSSSSUPEEEER very thank !!