How to draw mechanical threads

When it comes to drawing realistic-looking threads for either illustration or engineering drawings, many users often puzzle of just how to tackle the shape and shading aspects. Here's one basic technique you can try on your own using the tools available in CorelDRAW 11 to create machine-bolt style threads around a cylindrical object.

How to Make Flame Skull with Photoshop

Step 1
For this tutorial, I used Photoshop CS3, a skull from Designious.com  (you could choose to use a free skull though, such as Skull Vector Pack 1) and some hi-res flames images. The high-res image files are available to Psd Plus members in the download pack. Though non-members are certainly welcome to shoot your own flame photos or find some stock to use here, so you can follow along.

Page Curl

This tutorial will demonstrate how you can create a page curl effect. Many people have written asking how this is done and I'll be demonstrating the technique with all of the programs I write tutorials for. I used Corel DRAW! 7.0 for Windows for this technique. Some things may be done differently with other versions.

Making an Eye

When creating an eye in 3d there are usually two approaches. First one is just to create a sphere and apply an eye texture to it. This gives a more comic look, but the drawback is that there is no depth in the eye, thus making whole model feel shallow (some would say without a soul). Second approach, the one which we will be explaining here, is to make fully 3d eye, just like Pixar does in their movies. So, let’s begin.

Creating GEL Text

Creating GEL buttons has already been covered here and covered very well so I thought it would be fun to see if we could create the GEL look in text. Before we get started, however, we need to set a few common parameters. I will be using CorelDRAW® 11 and so some features may be different or may have migrated to different menus, as they often do between versions of CorelDRAW.