A Tired but Happy Christmas

**Albacore** · 21 December 2005, 05:22 PM

This year seems to be the year of personal Christmas Cards. I have done so many of them and since November a day does not go by without another batch to be done at work. I have tried holly, santa, angles, robins, local winter scenes, the list goes on and on. This one went well with two different customers

**dduran** · 21 December 2005, 06:10 PM

Wow, That second one is incredible, looks real.

Happy Christmas and Merry New Year!

Danny

**sallybode** · 22 December 2005, 01:32 AM

Excellent work, I agree the second one is terrific. Looks real.

**Craig1128** · 22 December 2005, 03:26 AM

Very nice, I'm impressed!

**andre luiz** · 29 November 2013, 11:04 AM

Você quis dizer: é uma pena que esse pessoal da galeria xara não fazem tutoriais, pois se fizessem tutoriais deste nivel o software já seria bem mais conhecido.
is a shame that this staff xara gallery tutorials do because if they did this tutorial level software would have much better known.

**wizard509** · 30 November 2013, 02:47 AM

Albacore like the others I am really impressed with the second one. The colors are perfect. You really captured that flame.

**Albacore** · 30 November 2013, 10:15 AM

Gosh that one was done a few years ago when I was drawing for fun and thanks very much for the kind remarks but Oh how things have changed. After about ten years of working in graphics, when I stopped work for the day that was it, no drawing at night as well, I couldn't focus the same. This meant that the reputation that I had locally for graphics was lost and apart for a few websites, tickets, posters and other odds and sods not much work after I retired. I still draw and sketch a lot on paper and do water colours and have tried it on the iPad but that is full of frustration as there still not a decent stylus at an affordable price. Still do 5 newsletters a week for health board plus I am doing a course on html 5 and SVG which keeps the brain ticking over but that's it.

I am now trying to find that drawing, I know it's backed up somewhere in a DVD or a H/disc but I am not the type to catalogue a drawings to csv file and I hate Adobe's Bridge on any computer.

**stygg2003** · 30 November 2013, 01:59 PM

Beautiful work Albacore and just to remind everyone if they want to draw a candle and flame, Gary Priestner did a tutorial for this some years a go, it's still in the archives

Stygg