draw spider web

How to use the pencil tool to draw a spider web? I drew one using brush which look crooked, i wish to have a better one, thanks!:p

I don't think there's really an easy way to do it. Unless you can find a filter to do it or something.

But try holding down shift while you do it so it will lock the lines into a couple of different angles.

First and foremost, you don't want to use the Pencil Tool because it's designed to create lines that are made up of just black and white pixels...no shades of gray. Because of this, any lines that aren't perfectly horizontal or vertical will appear jaggedy, blocky, or "aliased" to use the proper technical term.

How realistic do you want this to look? Are lines like you'd see in a cartoon drawing good enough?

I dpn't remember the letter, but there is a spiderweb character in the font "webdings"

I found the letter! it is shift-2 on font 'webdings', thanks. But i still wish to draw one by my own, how would i draw a more natural one? I use pencil and manage to draw some shapes, buy after that, how would i fill in the color of the thread and change its texture so it looks natural?

thanks for the attempt to help me!



regards,
still dumb

if you have access to a vector drawing program like illustrator or freehand (illustrator is better:D ) that may be easier to create the initial shape. once you have it in photoshop, use slight blurs and adjust the transparency to make it look a little more natural. take a look at a photo of a real spider web and pick out the features that make it look real as opposed to what you have.

to change colors, play around with adjust>hue/saturation. (try the colorize button in that pallette too)

Originally posted by milhouse
...like illustrator or freehand (illustrator is better:D )

I may agree, with version 10..... :D
but before then.....I gotta side with FreeHand.
Really though, I guess its just what interface you like better....I LOVE FreeHand's interface... I like CorelDraw's interface(you can change it to look like Freehand or illustrator...woohoo!)... I really don't care for Illustrator's interface...
Plain truth.... they all do the same things... they have been playing leapfrog for years.

in all honesty the only reason i like illustrator is because its what ive been using since i got into digital graphics. it would be a different story if i learned on freehand because they both are amazing programs, its just that im comfortable with illustrator.:D