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Tina Popielarczyk
With a Zoom Tool (Z) zoom in for easier drawing. Grab the Pen Tool (P) from the Tool Panel and try to draw each part of the ball pattern. You will notice that the sides of the polygons are slightly curved.
Repeat the previous steps to complete other parts of the pattern as well. Set the Fill color of the each part to black (#00000) or white (#FFFFF) to match the reference image. You should end up with something like this.
With a Zoom Tool (Z) zoom in the illustration so we can be more precise. Grab the Pen Tool (P) from the Tool Panel and try to draw the shape as it shown on the picture below.
Keep drawing small details for other parts of the pattern as well. It will create a nice depth for our illustration. Feel free to set the Fill color for some of the details to gray. This way it will look like shadows and highlights.
In this tutorial we have shown how to turn a photograph into realistic vector illustration by using very simple techniques such as, tracing a reference image with a Pen Tool and applying nice radial gradients. Feel free to use your creativity and imagination to create other types of sport balls. If you happen to have any questions feel free to post it in the comment section below. I hope you like the tutorial. Thank you for following along!
Hi,
Thank you for your link. Your ball look quite nice. I would only suggest one thing.Feel free to emphasize more the shadows. Make them darker. This way you will be able to achieve semi-realistic look of the ball.
I wanted to show you what I got from following this tutorial. I had to look up some other staff like pressing "Alt" on the anchors to make discontinuous curvs with the pencil tool or dig further about radial gradient because I'm not used to this tools on Illustrator, but the tutorial was helpfull indeed.
My ball:
That is some very impressive work. I really dig this style of vector art - the lighting and shading technique is really nice. Very well done my friend. I hope to see more come from you in the future. I will be trying this tutorial out shortly.
Firstly, find the middle of the page, and mark a dot 14 cm from the bottom. Then set your compass to 9 cm wide, which will give our ball a diameter of 18 cm. Place the spike end of the compass on the marked dot, and draw the circle.
Now, we're going to draw the hexagons and pentagons on the soccer ball. It doesn't matter if you get it wrong, just draw lightly at first so it's easy to rub out, then when you're happy with what you've got press harder. Start by drawing 2 pentagons, almost symmetrical. Add a chopped off part of a pentagon at the top, and a pentagon at the bottom. *IMPORTANT* Make sure to curve some of the lines slightly, to replicate the curve of a real ball, making it more 3D.
Connect the lines from the pentagons, to form hexagons. Continue to make hexagons and make sure that each pentagon is surrounded by hexagons, before drawing another pentagon. This step can be a little tricky, and so if you get stuck, use the template. You should be able to save, and print off the template which you can use to help you draw it.
This step is essential, this really makes it look 3D when it's finished. Use the pictures or template as a guide and mark some areas with the Artline 400 to NOT shade, until right near the end. Then go over the pencil lines with the Artline to really define the shapes.
For this step we're going to only use the Sharpie, with it color in all the pentagons. Making sure to NOT color in the areas you marked (middle right picture). You might need to go over the pentagons twice to make sure you get a solid black.
This step is personal, you can pick your favorite team to draw on the ball. I chose F.C Barcelona to draw on my soccer ball. I drew the outline with the Artline marker, and then did the details inside.
This is a very important step, as it makes your soccer ball much more realistic and 3D. Start by marking off a few spots on the hexagons to keep lighter, this will add to the 3D effect. Next, lightly shade the light areas in the black pentagons, then smudge the shading with a tissue or your finger. Go over the whole soccer ball lightly, EXCEPT the middle top hex (the hexagon with the team logo in it). When shading darker areas go over lightly, then press a little harder and repeat until you get the desired tone. Shading multiple layers not only gives you the option to rub out areas to alter, but fills in the area better and gives smoother coverage. Keep doing layered shading until you're happy with the result, but make sure to keep the hexes near the top, lighter than the ones near the bottom.
To shade the shadow, draw an oval like shape underneath the the ball. You want to draw the shadow almost to the edge of each side, and have the top of the shadow about 1 cm away from the bottom of the ball. When you're happy with the shape of the shadow, press harder to darken the shadow. Pretend you have a slightly smaller oval inside the shadow, and leave near the edges a little lighter to give the effect of it levitating. Once you're done with the shadow, use your ruler to mark a straight line just underneath the widest part of the soccer ball. Next, cut across the line, and around the top of the ball. This trick will make the ball seem as though it's hovering above the page.
Lastly, rub around the ball to make really contrast the ball from the white background. Also, I found that after shading with the pencils, some graphite found its way onto my black pentagons. So to fix this I just went over my pentagons with the sharpie again.
Now, you're done! You can try out all different angles and see what angle your 3D soccer ball drawing works best. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, if you have any questions about techniques i used, or just some tips, comment and i will try to get back to you. If you do draw this make sure to click the "I Made It" button to let me know, and post a picture of your drawing in the comments.
I've worked in it. I've watched 3D movies. I've tried drawing with it. I've played games, taken photos, conducted eerie Persona-powered FaceTime calls, and rewatched moments in spatial videography. Last night, Vision Pro took me, for just five minutes, onto a professional football pitch (or soccer field for my fellow US fans).
This is not just virtual reality, it's Apple Immersive Video. It's 8K, 3D, 180-degree video, according to Apple, taking the mixed reality headset to the limits of its visual capabilities. In reality, Apple may shoot the video at 8K, but the maximum resolution of the headset is approximately 4K per eye.
Over the years, I've worn multiple VR headsets, including Meta Quest Pro and HTC Vive, and I've watched immersive video shot with specialized 360-degree cameras. It's always good, but usually lacks the visual clarity to make the video feel real.
Apple Immersive Video promises something more. When the company told me they were sharing a short, five-minute video (2023 MLS Cup Highlights) featuring moments from the 2023 Major League Soccer Cup playoffs, I put on the headset at precisely 9 PM ET and launched Apple TV in the headset to be among the first to experience it.
I've watched my share of sports season highlights reels, but this one hits different. The image quality is so real you want to touch and smell it. Your point of view as players walk onto the pitch feels like walking among them. When confetti blasts into the air after a goal, it rains down upon you.
Everything about the video is so real and unexpected, like being surprised by a woman clapping her hands right next to my right ear, or finding myself standing just behind the net as Columbus Crew and LAFC players scored a goal.
I saw it as an all-too-brief taste of the potential of Apple Immersive Video. I want to see an entire MLS game, or watch live baseball games from the vantage of first base and behind home plate. I would love to virtually sit in the audience at the next Oscars Telecast. Strap me to a skydiver, put me in the Tour de France, take me on a tour of the Colosseum in Rome.
For now, though, there are only a handful of Apple Immersive Video experiences, and none are longer than the 20-minute Alicia Keyes rehearsal experience. I'm not sure why there are still so few or what Apple is waiting for, but more videos like this will be sure to create the intense kind of FOMO Apple needs to inspire new Apple Vision Pro customers.
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Welcome to the comprehensive guide designed for data scientists eager to master statistical testing and experimentation, specifically applied to soccer, real football :) analytics. This article will guide you through a variety of statistical concepts and techniques, from basic hypothesis testing to complex multivariate analyses. By using real-world soccer data, we'll explore how statistical insights can be applied to understand game dynamics, player performance, and strategic decisions.
To kick off our journey into soccer analytics, let's begin by getting familiar with the type of data we're dealing with. Soccer data is rich and multifaceted, comprising various metrics that capture the essence of the game. For this guide, imagine we have a dataset that records detailed match outcomes for professional soccer leagues. Each entry in this dataset corresponds to one match and includes the following key data points:
This dataset provides a snapshot of what happened during each game, which allows us to conduct various statistical analyses to infer patterns, test theories about home advantage, player impact, and much more.
Hypothesis testing in statistics allows us to make inferences about a population based on sample data. In the context of our soccer data, suppose we want to test the common belief that "home teams win more often than away teams." This claim can be tested using a hypothesis test.
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