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The Celtic Boar Glass Button
was commissioned for a special part of the original
Fleeting Glimpse Graphics
gallery. The design of the button was to complement a piece written about
a custom dagger carved with a Boar motif. The carver of the knife was the
The Chiseler's Art based in Colorado. |
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The original art was scanned from a clipart
book on Celtic Themes. The graphic was scanned in 1600 DPI resolution to
provide sufficient detail to convert to a vector format graphic. Minor
cleanup was preformed in a graphics editor before converting the graphic. |
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After creating a clean line drawing in
bitmap format, the image was brought into Corel Draw® for
tracing. Converting the image to vector format allowed a multitude of easy
redesign opportunities as well as the ability to make the image scalable
to any size without the "jaggies" caused by scaling pixel images. In
addition, the opportunity was taken to easy apply a variety of color
schemes. |
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Celtic designs are all about green and
gold. A variety of patterns, colors and effects were tried, rejected,
resurrected and finally applied to create the image at your left. In
the end we had a scalable image suitable for many uses. The final image is
full of color and impact. |
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But, as I stated at the top of the article,
this was about a glass button. The boar was great by itself but it was
meant to be the item of interest in a "trendy" glass button complete with
glowing shadow and highlights. |
| The Celtic Boar button is a
good illustration of how any graphic conceived, designed or implemented
can have the range to cover the simplistic, the single-colored, the print,
and the web. |
