How to draw an apple in Photoshop

Eren Göksel provides a step-by-step for drawing this apple. How to Create a Delicious Green Apple Illustration

[#1 posted by Kawentzmann , October 3, 2008 2:18 PM]

Reminds me of those airbrush posters from the 70s and 80s. Cola bottlecaps and such.

[#2 posted by The Unusual Suspect , October 3, 2008 2:23 PM]

Fresh fruit from The Uncanny Valley.

[#3 posted by dbarak , October 3, 2008 2:26 PM]

I tried it and got this...

http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/72417/mac_qjpreviewth.jpg

[#4 posted by Antinous , October 3, 2008 2:32 PM]

Is that an Apple with the Windows logo on it? How arch.

[#5 posted by Logotu , October 3, 2008 2:46 PM]

And I guessed from the headline that this was about faking photos the latest Macbook rumors...

[#6 posted by loosenut , October 3, 2008 4:43 PM]

@#2 - Props.

[#7 posted by sammich , October 3, 2008 4:45 PM]

Antinous @ 4 - LOL

[#8 posted by Zinjanthropus , October 3, 2008 4:56 PM]

That's not a Delicious apple, it looks more like a Granny Smith.

[#9 posted by userw014 , October 3, 2008 6:32 PM]

Wax fruit.


All of the apples I have are irregular. None are super-symetric like this.

[#10 posted by misshallelujah , October 3, 2008 8:52 PM]

#4 @ Antinous -- I LOLed IRL. Good catch!

[#11 posted by higgledypiggledy , October 4, 2008 5:01 AM]

Oh wow.

I'm no photosop hore so I have no idea how possible it actaully is, but it' still a cool drawing.

^^

[#12 posted by Tom Hale , October 4, 2008 6:32 AM]

I'm sure you could do the same with GIMP - which I use quite a bit. Sure, I could always torrent Photoshop, but I'm kind of shying away from that sort of thing these days. Also, a new version of GIMP was recently released. http://tinyurl.com/53m7kx

[#13 posted by Raven737 , October 4, 2008 10:35 AM]

Well it is amazing what skilled people can do in Photoshop... but why go through all the trouble of elaborately faking 3D effects when you could do the same with 3dsmax or maya for example in like 10 sec. with photo realistic, physically correct global illumination and volumetric lights and shadows.
With that you can also easily change the perspective or integrate other objects.

You could of course also use free apps like Blender or PovRay.. might take a few more seconds though....

[#14 posted by Thorzdad , October 4, 2008 11:18 AM]

Or, you could, y'know, take a photo of an actual apple.

[#15 posted by Takuan , October 4, 2008 11:34 AM]

heretic!!

[#16 posted by andyhavens , October 4, 2008 1:47 PM]

I'm always amused when the comments on these Photoshop tutorials run to "why don't you do it with Illustrator" or "a 3D program" or "it doesn't really look like a beer/pencil/apple," or "just take a photo."

The point of a tutorial is to learn to use the program better. If all we wanted was *that picture* of *that apple* we could just copy and paste it.

Jeez. They're good tutorials. I've done them. They teach you stuff. Case closed.

[#17 posted by MegaFill , October 4, 2008 1:48 PM]

wow! nice effect!

[#18 posted by Anonymous , October 5, 2008 12:32 PM]

Photoshopped!