Good morning coffee

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

I'm a coffee lover.
Grind the beans and brew it myself every morning.
Sorry, Starbucks, Joe the Art of Coffee and Café Grumpy.
My coffee is better! :cool

100% vectors except the beans' drop shadow.

Edit. Slightly improved version - thanks to ofnuts critique :bigthup

Erisian · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 6:17 pm **(#2)**

I am with you all the way K1Te. Mornings were made for coffee! Excellent work. You might be interested in this thread: http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5263

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 6:18 pm **(#3)**

k1tesseraena: oh no! k1te, my brother, i didn't expect this from you!! now the bean juice abusers will get wind in their sails again and i will have to mobilise my army of tea lovers to restore balance. *heaves big sigh*

(lovely work on the picture, though! i'm thoroughly impressed. the coffee looks very real. ai?)

erisian: tss. you only dreamed k1tes picture was about coffee - in reality it was about morning tea.

Rellik419 · **Joined:** Aug 11, 2013 **Posts:** 123 **Location:** Ohio

Super crisp! Very impressive. :bigthup

ek22 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 6:40 pm **(#5)**

Coffee with foam, like you get from a french press. I might be tempted to steal that cup.

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

AnMal wrote:

k1tesseraena: oh no! k1te, my brother, i didn't expect this from you!! now the bean juice abusers will get wind in their sails again and i will have to mobilise my army of tea lovers to restore balance. *heaves big sigh*

(lovely work on the picture, though! i'm thoroughly impressed. the coffee looks very real. ai?)

erisian: tss. you only dreamed k1tes picture was about coffee - in reality it was about morning tea.

Oh you may relax !
The liquid in the cup is dark hot chocolate and of course the cafe beans of pure black chocolate
...should be perfect for my almond cookies

Very nicely done except that Italian as me may hardly believe that cafe could be drink from such large cups

but then Turkish could say the same for the tea, they should found awful so large cup used for the tea they use quite little glasses

fluffybunny · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 6:58 pm **(#7)**

Very realistic. :bigthup

I just query the amount of bubble highlight on the coffee bubbles on the higher side of the cup in shadow of the cup's rim though, should be a little less bright than the other side in full light, IMO.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 7:58 pm **(#8)**

Excellent, Kite! My favorite brew.

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Thanks everyone!

@Erisian I remember that thread! You're not alone!
@AnMal I know how you feel about us, coffee addicts :hehe

But don't you worry, sister,
it's mostly tea or mate I go with throughout the rest of day. You're right, it's ai.
@ek22 Be my guest EK, I've got state of the art coffee maker

@PC You haven't seen a big cup yet. Here in the US we are sort of gigantomaniacs. 16 oz or even 20 oz cups
of coffee at gas station is not an unusual thing :hehe

@fluffybanny Yes, you're right. I made foam darker on that side and initially toned down the light spots on bubbles
but by some reason did not like the overall look. Redoing it is possible, I'll take a look at it tomorrow.
@ O Thank you! Long time no see. We miss you here!

Wallace · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 8:46 pm **(#10)**

Same here, every morning. Freshly ground coffee, from whole bean and made in a french press. Anything else is just wrong.

Love the look of your coffee. It's most inviting and the bubbles make it look so real/tasty that I can almost smell it. :jumpclap

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Thank you Wallace!

Wallace · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 9:54 pm **(#12)**

K1TesseraEna wrote:

Thank you Wallace!

You're welcome K1TesseraEna.

YAFU · **Joined:** Nov 09, 2011 **Posts:** 726

Excellent!
But what program? Inkscape or some closed source app? :hoh

I drink coffee occasionally. I drink little coffee because I find that it gives me headaches sometimes.

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Thank you, conbagui! Appreciate it!

YAFU wrote:

Excellent!
But what program? Inkscape or some closed source app? :hoh

Thank you YAFU! I admitted long time ago that all the vector stuff I do
is AI - A(beep!) Illustrator. It's the best vector tool out there. No offense to Inkscape but I've realized its limits
and decided to move on.

YAFU · **Joined:** Nov 09, 2011 **Posts:** 726

K1TesseraEna wrote:

is AI - A(beep!) Illustrator. It's the best vector tool out there.

Ok, I'm not going to discuss that. I do not know much about vector graphics applications. Even I do not know much about inkscape :mrgreen:

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Good work on the coffee, like how the whole image has been put together.

Akros · **Joined:** Jan 10, 2013 **Posts:** 863

Excellent! Clean and sophisticated.
The cafe looks real ... well, everything really looks real.
Perhaps a little smoke over coffee, accentuate the idea of a fresh coffee.

The blue stripes on the saucer also looked great!
K1t beautiful work! :paint

AnMal · **Posted:** Sun Oct 06, 2013 3:44 am **(#18)**

hmmm... i look at this again and i don't agree with pc that the cup is big - if you compare it to the size of the coffee beans it can't be much bigger than an ordinary espresso cup, surely? i also think the highlight on the bubbles look right the way they are. in reality they may be less bright on the shadow side, but we won't experience them as less bright and that's probably why k1te thought it looked better this way. sometimes a bit of cheating in art makes the art better

. then of course, if you paint tea instead of coffee it's always better!

Akros · **Joined:** Jan 10, 2013 **Posts:** 863

AnMal wrote:

sometimes a bit of cheating in art makes the art better

.

Ahan! Nice tip

AnMal wrote:

sometimes a bit of cheating in art makes the art better

. then of course, if you paint tea instead of coffee it's always better!

Wonderful sense of humor! Love it!

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Thanks, he4rty, Akros!

@Akros I figured steaming coffee would be a bit too much.
After all, realism wasn't the main goal.

@AnMal thank you, sister, for standing up for me

You have a very good point here!