This piece was inspired by Bob (iamtheblues) who posted a denim pocket down in the general graphics Gallery. Bob was using illy and a plugin and I decided to challenge myself and see what I could do using only Xara.
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This piece was inspired by Bob (iamtheblues) who posted a denim pocket down in the general graphics Gallery. Bob was using illy and a plugin and I decided to challenge myself and see what I could do using only Xara.
Stitching working beautifully. Studs, OK. Denim texture not quite there for me.
Nice job though, Frances.
Paul, the Denim appraiser.. ;-)
Excellent job Francis. I too like the stitching. But I also like the denim and rivets. I think the whole thing turned out well. What did you uses for the pattern of the denim? Did you set the stitching up with a brush?
Hi Frances. A few years ago Gnurf did a denim texture as a result of one that I did in Illy. I tried it as well in Xara and couldn't get it to look the same it didn't have that woven look. Here's how Gnurf did it and he included a mini tut: http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...ighlight=denim
Sorry didn't mean to high-jack your thread thought it might help others.
The denim doesn't work for me.
But, the stitching is just great. :-bd
Thanks for comments everyone. The little mini tut from Gnurf will be helpful, I used a similar technique with layers of fractal fills and transparencies. I was going for a stonewashed look. The stitching and the gathered fabric around the stitches are two separate brushes. The stitching came about as a happy accident as I was experimenting with the stitching and I forgot to turn the brush definition object horizontally before creating the brush and it gets some shifts in rotation which give it an interesting look.
Nice work, Frances. I personally think the studs look perfect. I like the stitching too.
Nicely done, Fraces. I too like the stitching and studs.
After going through the tut from gnurf that Albacore linked to I've refined my denim texture and added a lighter denim fill to the lettering. The pocket studs are actually bitmaps ( they are from the hardware scrapbooking set in the designs gallery. I just adjusted the hue and saturation to make them look more brass like. The second image shows my brushes the gathered fabric brush was given a bleach transparency after being applied to the line.
I like your version 2 a lot, Frances. Big improvement on the texture of the original.
(also miles better than my attempts, too!) ;))
Bob.