1. Open a new canvas, 400 X 400.
2. Click the path tool. Set the color to a darker one than you
want your towels to end up, and set the mode to 2d.
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3. Select the freehand drawing
tool shape, and draw a shape as high as the canvas with uneven edges
to create the folds in your towel. When you get near the point where
you started, let go of the mouse button so the path is completed
automatically. This makes a smoother joint. We want to work big so
that drawing in the folds will be easier.
In the path panel,
click the shape tab, set the accuracy to 10.
Click the eyedropper
tool and click on the shape to set your foreground color to the
same. We will need to match the color later.
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4. Go to effect/ noise, add noise. Set
the distribution to varied and the variance to 30.
Version 8 users can
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5. Go to edit/ fill and set the
mode to colorize and the color to foreground color.
This will get
rid of the multi colored look.
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6. Go to effect/fm tile tools/ blend
emboss. Set up the options like in this screen shot. Click
apply.
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7. Now we are ready to start
shading the towel so the folds appear natural.
Click the Paint
tool, and choose the airbrush tool. Right click the color box in the
attribute bar, and click windows color picker. Choose a color
several shades darker than it was on previously. Set the
transparency on 70. 
Now locate one of the dips in your towel
edge, and begin to shade there. You will have to keep painting over
several times. Make sure not to go over it too much though. Near the
dip, I usually paint in a triangular area like in this detail.
Continue painting in the folds, each time following the dips. |
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8. Now that you have your towel
creases painted in, reduce the size of the towel to the size you
want it to be, and apply blend emboss to it again, this time using
these settings.
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9. The towel rack is composed of 5
rounded rectangles. I used a burlwood to fill mine. If you
like you can use it too. Save the wood file to your hard drive somewhere.
Click the path tool and change the shape to rounded rectangle. Click the
material box, and in the color/ texture tab, click the file button. A
window will open, allowing you to browse to the folder where you saved the
file.
Now this wood file has vertical stripes and we want them
horizontal. Here's how to fix that. Still in the material box, click the
options button. Tick off tile the texture and rotate it 90 degrees. Click
ok and apply.
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10. Draw two more rounded rectangles
and position them at each end of the towel rack. Make the brackets to
attach the rack to the wall with two more small rounded rectangles. Use
the pick tools send to back command to send these parts to the back. With
pick tool still selected, click the background to deselect all objects
then click on one end knob, and hold down control while clicking on the
other. Use the align top command in the attribute bar so that they line up
exactly right at the top. Do the same with the brackets.
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11. Click on the towel bar, and add a
shadow with the default settings. Do the same with the towel.
12.
Right click on the towel, and duplicate. Use the transform tool to rotate
it horizontally, and position it higher and slightly to one side of the
back towel. Use the transform tool with the lock unlocked to reduce the
height of your top piece. .
That's all there is to creating this towel
and rack.
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.
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