Wrap Cindy Crawford in Lace!
Sunday, July 12th, 2009 running time 18:23
Bert gives us an update on his Times Square piece and focuses on some sexy lace on Cindy Crawford's shoulders made from scratch!
Create geometric shapes in lace using Adobe Illustrator
Before we add lace to the curves of Cindy Crawford's body, we want to build the shapes of the lace in Illustrator. You can use a photo of existing fabric to trace a few of the patterns. Bert builds these from scratch by first turning on the guides and draw a couple circles with no fill, then blend to replicate more circles. Create segments by drawing a vertical line, then rotating the angle by 20 degrees. Hit Ctrl D to replicate the rotation in future copies of the line until you have a shape that looks like a spider web. Repeat the process for the rounded parts of the pattern that sit on the outer edge.
Import the shapes to Photoshop
We now bring our completed shapes into a new file Photoshop. The new file should have a gradient that is similar to Cindy's shoulder skin tone. Then, paste in the copied shape from Illustrator. Make sure the shape looks like a bunch of white, twisted threads by using these brush settings: 5 pixel diameter with a white foreground, Shape Dynamics turned off, and increased spacing so that the knots look like they're just touching. Go back to your path, and then stroke the path with the brush. Now the shape looks like a doily. Add a slight drop shadow and a small inner bevel with a soft edge to add some depth.
Warp the shape
Contour the lace to the shape of the shoulder by using Warp. In a larger example, Bert stitched all his shapes together first before wrapping Cindy's shoulders.
Coming up in a future episode:
Learn how to create Cindy Crawford's beautiful, elaborate, wavy hair!
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Highlights
cindy crawford
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3:48, 5:18, 3:48, 5:18
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draw attention
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2:51, 4:04, 2:51, 4:04
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stitches
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0:54, 7:27, 0:54, 7:27
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cindy crawford
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3:48, 5:18, 3:48, 5:18
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draw attention
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2:51, 4:04, 2:51, 4:04
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stitches
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0:54, 7:27, 0:54, 7:27
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" This episode of pixel perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. Well welcome the pixel perfect Bieber wanted to show archive that things had happened on today's show we're going to. Look at. How to create embroidery. A nice -- made out all these really cool stitches. But before we start today background show was sent to us by Eric wolf blogger. I'm just gonna pick myself out of the picture. And now. I'm back. That was done little. And human being name show down there it's really pretty I gotta move over my shoulder. If the moon my show. But first we start but thank our sponsors. If you want to make an impact online godaddy.com. Has what you need. Dot com names for the lower the dollar 99 plus a world class hosting fast and easy web site builders and so much more. Plus if you went to -- pixel four when you check out. You'll save an additional 15% on any order of 75 dollars and more some restrictions do apply to this site for details. But it -- piece of the Internet at godaddy.com. Be sure to check out revision3.com. Forward slash GoDaddy. For all the pixel perfect godaddy deals and codes in case the current one it is so good. Ones and is a whole bunch of different deals that the do you want. It's also thank Netflix sponsored pixel perfect. With Netflix you can rent over 90000 titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to your home. The Netflix plans start from as little -- four dollars and 99 cents an as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out at www. Netflix.com. Forward slash pixel perfect. And yes you do have to type in that WWW. When you use this code. Okay so now. This into the show. Now I as you guys that seemed previous episodes I am working on this masses -- them to get there. Going to it showed you the second. In its current state but. I would draw attention. "
" Who small part. Accident that small but part up but the -- the top there now it's still not finished its. Got a few more finessing the dude does the regular little more pornographic but. -- to punishment is certain details that really important how to do -- they would see the current state of but the Pena right now so when I gotta go to lot of dissent here you'll see that. It is a lot of things have been done -- a cover a couple of these things as a whole -- back there has to Iron Man I covered a couple weeks ago. And so on so it is a lot of stuff going on. All the way up here yet this thing's happening so this is showing a very darken the screen. There's the outlook -- there it's pretty dark in new -- somebody's window here. There's lot of windows in there. You just don't see them but. Right here is what I wanted to repentant of his big giant billboard of Cindy Crawford -- upon top there he pulled back again. And here is the beginning stages of it. I've gotta position updates as you can see where it's gonna go but here's where she was treated now. Everything here was created from scratch when I want to draw attention to is. Right here this kind of errors this little outfit here it -- when it's all this little embroidery. Kind of stitching stuff going on here. That's what I wanna show you how it was created today. Now does a couple of parts to it has pulled back a bit. And you can see that. If foals -- certain places it's got these nice little shadows and all this stuff going on that we're gonna come. So now. It actually starts somewhere else because these particular. Geometric shapes is so much easier to create those in in illustrator. So that is where it started that is most of his -- he actually started in illustrated that's great recreational the basic shapes to perspective we've discussed this and previous episodes of fact that back in episode one no one. You're actually sort of perspective for the overall -- But here. We'll talk about this embroidery and because of the intricate nature of it illustrated a much better places to do that the switch over -- illustrated now. And it's and everything wanted to shapes. Now looking at the letters I've actually got a later back here of these Cindy Crawford. Can photograph right there. Right here back here second kind of see what these basic shapes look like now. I follow some fairly close to Swann is almost like this one here that's this kind of looked at the way things work to get the basic shapes. And I came up with these appreciates this little one. That on. And that. Now the little one. Pretty much is these little guys right there and and this picture it and that other big shape that we see down here. This one are the other two. They're not exactly the same it doesn't matter and in have to be exactly the same. Because the fact that. I can do whatever I want us so what is the wayward kids is that -- shapes. Visible right I could look at this guy here so what happened is I up a -- right. Guide to give myself the guys. That go and it has pulled out of guide. And show -- guides. Okay. So going to give myself a guide. And that's put out. To create one I got blocked layers here that I talk to going to create this. This guide right here. And another guy right. There -- these two guys right here."
" But to -- the guides. That a permanent there and our -- a little closer to so we can see what's gonna happen here and now I'm pretty sure it. That in this particular case that we see here I've got this little circle -- fifth circle right -- here. -- thanks so it has little things circle right there today is circle which I'm gonna do create another circle. Right from it. Let's go in here and create a much larger circle right -- like that. Has given no fill that they have to have. This. Film market today we have these two shapes so now. There's all these those stitches in between I also created a bunch of other. -- guys in between that's that's going here and just take this. These two and say blend make -- it's gonna create that and I go into my. Blend options and let's say let's give it the few more than just one let's give it -- eight. Eight there you go up -- now for radio I'm gonna create this one line. Going straight up there like that that I got this line -- it would take that line says that line right there. And I'm going to rotated. Radio from the center. Like -- a button clicks I get the rotation control window here and I can go and say let's give it think 20%. Of an angle twenty degrees and make a copy. And did that put -- at my command. To create all the ones in between. That same thing happened with these other shape going around so I'll come over here and just and create some little shape that looks like so. Down here like that and I would get a little closer. And done it's just that this guy right where we want product that. That. You bring them over just a little bit. There is so now I've got intellect and want to rotate him. From wind and here in the center I click again and to save twenty degrees again and make a copy it act. And we'll do it many times. We're gonna wrap tape that could take this guy let's take this guy right here put them right. There. And we'll rotate and slightly. Right from this angle right -- so he's right in their like that that's moreover. Okay so we got to shape them -- located just a little more on this angle. That's like that various and let's extend that rupees down this so it touches like this so now on take that guy. And we'll rotate him. Right from this guy right there. And we might want to rotate him Disco with the same thing with to a 120 on him -- copy and and -- would many times because -- I would start to build the soapy stuff. They there's all these different pieces though pullback and see all these different intricate shapes that basically one line which it then duplicate many times you go round and round and round. So now let's select this guy. -- noted this -- all right and let's unlock everybody. That's mature and what his -- yep so. I go in here and policies. In this layer here. Let's get this big fancy one here. Right so let's select all. And copy. And I copy that. I Kamal we hit in my Photoshop file."
" And I create a new -- When -- file. A new file here it's gonna -- reflect what's currently in the clipboard so it knows the size of the illustrator file. The way it was copied so it's gonna going to have figure that out and then -- gonna giving you file based on those dimensions. You have the ability to change doesn't mention is if you want. After comes -- There it is okay. They had given me decides that."
" That we need here okay so let's sisters and -- inches BC's five by five let's could give it a little more room so like at. Say. Eight by eight. -- can't click okay. That is how little file. So what we're doing right now is. -- pick up some colors speculates that the bees skin colors of pick up this page. Color here and for the -- pick -- that darker tone. And withdraw the radial gradient raised here like this right there. So now. I'm gonna go ahead and paste wrapped copy here ads paths. And paste and the path that we brought in from illustrator. Did they are okay so now. India actual -- as I'll show you a few minutes I created this whole series of of shape that created an overall pattern for the fabric. For the entire fabric you'll see that a minute but first is going here and create power our effect. So I'm gonna go in here and -- create a new layer. And this there's gonna housing embroidery. So now going to make it white so I get my wife my foreground -- get a brush a nice. Hard -- brush and small fairly small study. This sizes here -- get -- that's really good this is pretty good that's making its smaller let's go down to say may be. War it is a little time it's a little too small make five. That's gonna be good read there. Five. So what happens right now as we get this little line here Siskel and here we knew -- back up on the Senate at this. White line here so now let's go to our brush engine and -- it -- Turn off my shape dynamics I get a solid line no pressure sensitivity going on there and what we need is to make this look like it's all these little threads that are. Kind of until until little knots summit go to my rushed to shape and increased to spacing. That's the little bit just I start to separate that I don't wanna have a big space between them. So much has been at the bot like that feat but just get into those separate from but it just touch. So there that's the only setting have to do -- my pressure now time in the brush. I have the brushed up the way I want it so I go back to my. -- over here and I say stroke it right there. And stroked it with the existing brush that they -- here we have all this nice little effect going on there. Out of -- that makes little little knots so now we have to -- vote dimension now senator go to the later airport. And go to layer styles. Now it's against her skin. And it does. The ability to catch light so it's gonna drop. Shadow it people who drive had a right there that's it like come from this direction so we have this little drop shadow. Behind his little threads there. Now we also want to make them look and more rounds on a given little -- in the books. Now about one -- out pretty big and bring this down to about a to see what who's going to do yet to lose because it's just enough of the softness there. That's often that up a little bit so -- nice soft edge in there and that's take PM. The shadow mode investors bring that. That a stronger as we get this nice of shadow and the other -- it's like the screen is we're not really seeing him he's gonna do I'm gonna change it to -- great. Ever so slight -- and therefore I have to change just to multiply so we'll see that great and we didn't live look angry edge along the sides of the these little knots that our Apple backed 2% here there if you've got this material now the final touch. To get it over her skin was to go in there and what's -- that overall material. I went in there and I data war -- They took it. And then I distorted it and it all the kinds of of -- that I needed. -- Okay and that's to say we drag this part over and maybe drag this one and and this one up a little bit more. And -- just turn these guys overlay that. And they we see that we have this. Nice bunch of little threads that have been not together and it's just taking on the shape of the -- that. So now coming back over here it to be original painting. And we pulled back. Somewhere -- out of here you see that the is all the different layers that make it up somewhere way down here we have this. Fabric so let's just turn on the the background. Says has these particular -- in here and I have a blouse. To copy right there and you can see the actual. Pattern the three different. Shapes. We're joined together and then just put together a little extra little lines were put in between to make them look like -- all stitched into one big giant pattern. Once I had that -- wrapped it in drape that around. Around her right there would see that organized the fabric that too dark years back there behind her. It's all in place. Now next week you're gonna talk about the hair. I've done here before on the show but this here is pretty about it it's pretty clear -- on your screen so next we're gonna talk about this here. Because it was a lot of steps."
" show here many many many shows ago but does have a good to really get in there and make it look really clean. Okay so I hope you learned something from all that there was a lot of steps and you might -- have to do embroidery but. You may be doing something else -- chain link or something something that requires those particular steps. Popular -- something that number -- plays the best way to learn is this him play with this stuff but as does anything that you haven't figured out on your own. You want to help you -- it sent me an email that the -- at revision3.com. When you can also check out the forums at revision3.com. But which platforms. You can join discussions about the show and maybe even influence if you it future show. Thanks again put. Two Eric qualifier. For submitting this incredible background but look at it again. -- But you know well do the old fashioned way I don't walk off. Mac you get so little rusty after why did that too many times and that doesn't work. On the practice but anyway. If you want your work to be back there is that it is green screen. You wanna fill this whole screen with your stuff that see your name along the bottom down here send me your designs since the -- at revision3.com. And your background should be 1280 by 720 pixels and AJ -- it must be. In those dimensions or else this back and fill the screen."
" Popularized them from this. Hope to see you next week where you can learn a whole bunch more. --"
" Wow."
" This episode of pixel perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. Well welcome the pixel perfect Bieber wanted to show archive that things had happened on today's show we're going to. Look at. How to create embroidery. A nice -- made out all these really cool stitches. But before we start today background show was sent to us by Eric wolf blogger. I'm just gonna pick myself out of the picture. And now. I'm back. That was done little. And human being name show down there it's really pretty I gotta move over my shoulder. If the moon my show. But first we start but thank our sponsors. If you want to make an impact online godaddy.com. Has what you need. Dot com names for the lower the dollar 99 plus a world class hosting fast and easy web site builders and so much more. Plus if you went to -- pixel four when you check out. You'll save an additional 15% on any order of 75 dollars and more some restrictions do apply to this site for details. But it -- piece of the Internet at godaddy.com. Be sure to check out revision3.com. Forward slash GoDaddy. For all the pixel perfect godaddy deals and codes in case the current one it is so good. Ones and is a whole bunch of different deals that the do you want. It's also thank Netflix sponsored pixel perfect. With Netflix you can rent over 90000 titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to your home. The Netflix plans start from as little -- four dollars and 99 cents an as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out at www. Netflix.com. Forward slash pixel perfect. And yes you do have to type in that WWW. When you use this code. Okay so now. This into the show. Now I as you guys that seemed previous episodes I am working on this masses -- them to get there. Going to it showed you the second. In its current state but. I would draw attention. "
" Who small part. Accident that small but part up but the -- the top there now it's still not finished its. Got a few more finessing the dude does the regular little more pornographic but. -- to punishment is certain details that really important how to do -- they would see the current state of but the Pena right now so when I gotta go to lot of dissent here you'll see that. It is a lot of things have been done -- a cover a couple of these things as a whole -- back there has to Iron Man I covered a couple weeks ago. And so on so it is a lot of stuff going on. All the way up here yet this thing's happening so this is showing a very darken the screen. There's the outlook -- there it's pretty dark in new -- somebody's window here. There's lot of windows in there. You just don't see them but. Right here is what I wanted to repentant of his big giant billboard of Cindy Crawford -- upon top there he pulled back again. And here is the beginning stages of it. I've gotta position updates as you can see where it's gonna go but here's where she was treated now. Everything here was created from scratch when I want to draw attention to is. Right here this kind of errors this little outfit here it -- when it's all this little embroidery. Kind of stitching stuff going on here. That's what I wanna show you how it was created today. Now does a couple of parts to it has pulled back a bit. And you can see that. If foals -- certain places it's got these nice little shadows and all this stuff going on that we're gonna come. So now. It actually starts somewhere else because these particular. Geometric shapes is so much easier to create those in in illustrator. So that is where it started that is most of his -- he actually started in illustrated that's great recreational the basic shapes to perspective we've discussed this and previous episodes of fact that back in episode one no one. You're actually sort of perspective for the overall -- But here. We'll talk about this embroidery and because of the intricate nature of it illustrated a much better places to do that the switch over -- illustrated now. And it's and everything wanted to shapes. Now looking at the letters I've actually got a later back here of these Cindy Crawford. Can photograph right there. Right here back here second kind of see what these basic shapes look like now. I follow some fairly close to Swann is almost like this one here that's this kind of looked at the way things work to get the basic shapes. And I came up with these appreciates this little one. That on. And that. Now the little one. Pretty much is these little guys right there and and this picture it and that other big shape that we see down here. This one are the other two. They're not exactly the same it doesn't matter and in have to be exactly the same. Because the fact that. I can do whatever I want us so what is the wayward kids is that -- shapes. Visible right I could look at this guy here so what happened is I up a -- right. Guide to give myself the guys. That go and it has pulled out of guide. And show -- guides. Okay. So going to give myself a guide. And that's put out. To create one I got blocked layers here that I talk to going to create this. This guide right here. And another guy right. There -- these two guys right here."
" But to -- the guides. That a permanent there and our -- a little closer to so we can see what's gonna happen here and now I'm pretty sure it. That in this particular case that we see here I've got this little circle -- fifth circle right -- here. -- thanks so it has little things circle right there today is circle which I'm gonna do create another circle. Right from it. Let's go in here and create a much larger circle right -- like that. Has given no fill that they have to have. This. Film market today we have these two shapes so now. There's all these those stitches in between I also created a bunch of other. -- guys in between that's that's going here and just take this. These two and say blend make -- it's gonna create that and I go into my. Blend options and let's say let's give it the few more than just one let's give it -- eight. Eight there you go up -- now for radio I'm gonna create this one line. Going straight up there like that that I got this line -- it would take that line says that line right there. And I'm going to rotated. Radio from the center. Like -- a button clicks I get the rotation control window here and I can go and say let's give it think 20%. Of an angle twenty degrees and make a copy. And did that put -- at my command. To create all the ones in between. That same thing happened with these other shape going around so I'll come over here and just and create some little shape that looks like so. Down here like that and I would get a little closer. And done it's just that this guy right where we want product that. That. You bring them over just a little bit. There is so now I've got intellect and want to rotate him. From wind and here in the center I click again and to save twenty degrees again and make a copy it act. And we'll do it many times. We're gonna wrap tape that could take this guy let's take this guy right here put them right. There. And we'll rotate and slightly. Right from this angle right -- so he's right in their like that that's moreover. Okay so we got to shape them -- located just a little more on this angle. That's like that various and let's extend that rupees down this so it touches like this so now on take that guy. And we'll rotate him. Right from this guy right there. And we might want to rotate him Disco with the same thing with to a 120 on him -- copy and and -- would many times because -- I would start to build the soapy stuff. They there's all these different pieces though pullback and see all these different intricate shapes that basically one line which it then duplicate many times you go round and round and round. So now let's select this guy. -- noted this -- all right and let's unlock everybody. That's mature and what his -- yep so. I go in here and policies. In this layer here. Let's get this big fancy one here. Right so let's select all. And copy. And I copy that. I Kamal we hit in my Photoshop file."
" And I create a new -- When -- file. A new file here it's gonna -- reflect what's currently in the clipboard so it knows the size of the illustrator file. The way it was copied so it's gonna going to have figure that out and then -- gonna giving you file based on those dimensions. You have the ability to change doesn't mention is if you want. After comes -- There it is okay. They had given me decides that."
" That we need here okay so let's sisters and -- inches BC's five by five let's could give it a little more room so like at. Say. Eight by eight. -- can't click okay. That is how little file. So what we're doing right now is. -- pick up some colors speculates that the bees skin colors of pick up this page. Color here and for the -- pick -- that darker tone. And withdraw the radial gradient raised here like this right there. So now. I'm gonna go ahead and paste wrapped copy here ads paths. And paste and the path that we brought in from illustrator. Did they are okay so now. India actual -- as I'll show you a few minutes I created this whole series of of shape that created an overall pattern for the fabric. For the entire fabric you'll see that a minute but first is going here and create power our effect. So I'm gonna go in here and -- create a new layer. And this there's gonna housing embroidery. So now going to make it white so I get my wife my foreground -- get a brush a nice. Hard -- brush and small fairly small study. This sizes here -- get -- that's really good this is pretty good that's making its smaller let's go down to say may be. War it is a little time it's a little too small make five. That's gonna be good read there. Five. So what happens right now as we get this little line here Siskel and here we knew -- back up on the Senate at this. White line here so now let's go to our brush engine and -- it -- Turn off my shape dynamics I get a solid line no pressure sensitivity going on there and what we need is to make this look like it's all these little threads that are. Kind of until until little knots summit go to my rushed to shape and increased to spacing. That's the little bit just I start to separate that I don't wanna have a big space between them. So much has been at the bot like that feat but just get into those separate from but it just touch. So there that's the only setting have to do -- my pressure now time in the brush. I have the brushed up the way I want it so I go back to my. -- over here and I say stroke it right there. And stroked it with the existing brush that they -- here we have all this nice little effect going on there. Out of -- that makes little little knots so now we have to -- vote dimension now senator go to the later airport. And go to layer styles. Now it's against her skin. And it does. The ability to catch light so it's gonna drop. Shadow it people who drive had a right there that's it like come from this direction so we have this little drop shadow. Behind his little threads there. Now we also want to make them look and more rounds on a given little -- in the books. Now about one -- out pretty big and bring this down to about a to see what who's going to do yet to lose because it's just enough of the softness there. That's often that up a little bit so -- nice soft edge in there and that's take PM. The shadow mode investors bring that. That a stronger as we get this nice of shadow and the other -- it's like the screen is we're not really seeing him he's gonna do I'm gonna change it to -- great. Ever so slight -- and therefore I have to change just to multiply so we'll see that great and we didn't live look angry edge along the sides of the these little knots that our Apple backed 2% here there if you've got this material now the final touch. To get it over her skin was to go in there and what's -- that overall material. I went in there and I data war -- They took it. And then I distorted it and it all the kinds of of -- that I needed. -- Okay and that's to say we drag this part over and maybe drag this one and and this one up a little bit more. And -- just turn these guys overlay that. And they we see that we have this. Nice bunch of little threads that have been not together and it's just taking on the shape of the -- that. So now coming back over here it to be original painting. And we pulled back. Somewhere -- out of here you see that the is all the different layers that make it up somewhere way down here we have this. Fabric so let's just turn on the the background. Says has these particular -- in here and I have a blouse. To copy right there and you can see the actual. Pattern the three different. Shapes. We're joined together and then just put together a little extra little lines were put in between to make them look like -- all stitched into one big giant pattern. Once I had that -- wrapped it in drape that around. Around her right there would see that organized the fabric that too dark years back there behind her. It's all in place. Now next week you're gonna talk about the hair. I've done here before on the show but this here is pretty about it it's pretty clear -- on your screen so next we're gonna talk about this here. Because it was a lot of steps."
" show here many many many shows ago but does have a good to really get in there and make it look really clean. Okay so I hope you learned something from all that there was a lot of steps and you might -- have to do embroidery but. You may be doing something else -- chain link or something something that requires those particular steps. Popular -- something that number -- plays the best way to learn is this him play with this stuff but as does anything that you haven't figured out on your own. You want to help you -- it sent me an email that the -- at revision3.com. When you can also check out the forums at revision3.com. But which platforms. You can join discussions about the show and maybe even influence if you it future show. Thanks again put. Two Eric qualifier. For submitting this incredible background but look at it again. -- But you know well do the old fashioned way I don't walk off. Mac you get so little rusty after why did that too many times and that doesn't work. On the practice but anyway. If you want your work to be back there is that it is green screen. You wanna fill this whole screen with your stuff that see your name along the bottom down here send me your designs since the -- at revision3.com. And your background should be 1280 by 720 pixels and AJ -- it must be. In those dimensions or else this back and fill the screen."
" Popularized them from this. Hope to see you next week where you can learn a whole bunch more. --"
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