I'm baaaack...

Just thought I'd start a thread to say "hi".

Some old-timers might remember me as I was an active participant/moderator in the years before 2010. I used to live here in Xara-Xara-Land. Then things got crazy with work and fun stuff like talking graphics took the back burner. Years flew by. I'm currently in the process of retiring from my career as an architect. I'm hopeful that I will get back into exercising my creative noodle with graphics. One thing I've been thinking is I'd like to get into painting and potentially use Xara to plan out paintings. (When retired a person can make time to plan -- something that was never done in my past artistic pursuits that were always more playing than serious pursuits).

I'm going to have to look around the site here and see what old friends have been up to, and check out all the work of potential new friends!

It's good to be back!

Hi old friend, great to see you back, you've been missed ;)

In the dim recesses of my memory I seem to remember you. ;))

Mr. SketchUp I think it was.

Welcome Back Ross.

Welcome back Ross Macintosh!!!
Jim

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Welcome back, Ross.

Thanks Guys!

And it's my birthday today. 57 trips around the sun completed today. Odometer is at about 33,288,000,000 miles (53,580,000,000 km).

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Originally Posted by Ross Macintosh

Thanks Guys!
And it's my birthday today. 57 trips around the sun completed today. Odometer is at about 33,288,000,000 miles (53,580,000,000 km).

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Happy Birthday.

You did forget the Earth's rotational speed adds another 368,000,000 miles if you've always been 45 deg North.
Just sitting, you are travelling at Mach 1 Earth-wise and Sun-wise, 100 time faster.

No wonder we age,
Acorn

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Originally Posted by Acorn

Happy Birthday.

You did forget the Earth's rotational speed adds another 368,000,000 miles if you've always been 45 deg North.
Just sitting, you are travelling at Mach 1 Earth-wise and Sun-wise, 100 time faster.

No wonder we age,
Acorn

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Sounds like a 'Flat Earth' graphics challenge is coming on... (I just say that because clearly we ain't moving at Mach 1 right now :cool: )

Ross
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Acorn

Nice present to give yourself! Welcome back to Xara Land, Ross. =D>

Allison Moore

welcome back Ross... retirement is often a good career move... :)

Welcome back Ross !

Thanks!

Happy birthday and happy retirement, Ross. I remember learning a lot from your posts, and am so glad that you're back!

Welcome Back Ross.

Thanks for all the kind replies.

Welcome back Ross

Ross who?

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Welcome back Ross

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Thanks Frances!

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Originally Posted by Big Frank

Ross who?

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LOL --- I hope things are well with you Frank. You might not remember me (that's okay) but I have very fond memories of what I learned from you for which I'm thankful. I still think your vw splitty drawing is the best photorealistic vector illustration ever drawn.

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I still think your vw splitty drawing is the best photorealistic vector illustration ever drawn.

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I second that.

It's great to see you back
I may be unhinged but I'm not senile (yet)
Lots of good memories of the good old days :)

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I still think your vw splitty drawing is the best photorealistic vector illustration ever drawn.

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I recall you churning out some pretty amazing stuff yourself,
This thread is like the Expendables

My god, we can have a reunion!

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My god, we can have a reunion!

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=D> Where's Klaus, Jens, Risto, and Ramwolff44?

I was just about to ask about the always ebullient Klaus. :-)

If any members don't remember me from the old days perhaps you can get to know me better from some of my images. To my TalkGraphics profile I've added a few albums. They contain my better (old) stuff + a few newer (less good) images. I had fun creating them and I hope that shows.

Regards, Ross

Thanks for sharing these Ross. Strange how many I remember.

Having looked through the albums could I say how much I enjoyed you freehand drawings, the houses etc but my favourites are your Nova Scotia harbour scenes. The house freehand drawings reflect your training as an architect (not to any detriment!) but your harbour scenes have a freedom of drawing that I can only envy.

Egg

P.S. Where are all the penitentiary drawings???

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Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

P.S. Where are all the penitentiary drawings???

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When I lived in Nova Scotia my work was specialized in Criminal Justice projects. That meant court houses, police stations, and jails. When I moved to >> Prince Edward Island << that pretty much stopped. I did do a small addition to our local jail to accommodate offenders with intermittent sentences - i.e. folks required to spend their weekends in jail. PEI is Canada's smallest province and not very urban. The projects I worked on here were more varied than earlier in my career. My last project was a new daycare-thru-grade-12 francophone school. Prior to that it was a restaurant, culinary school, and group home for mentally-disabled adults.

Egg, the harbour sketches were true sketches which explains the looser style. The houses you mention were more illustrations than sketches as they used photographic references. The harbour ones are from Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia -- a tiny fishing village where my mother-in-law grew up.

I only mention the jail images as we go back that far & I still recall them. (Not that we were inside together!)

Just stating I love your sketches the most from all your images :)