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    Bill's flowers have been so beautiful I've been inspired to try one myself. I call it 'hibiscus' but I'm going from memory on what the flower looks like. (I failed to do any research [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] )

    Perhaps someone knows another type of flower it looks more like.

    Regards, Ross

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    Bill's flowers have been so beautiful I've been inspired to try one myself. I call it 'hibiscus' but I'm going from memory on what the flower looks like. (I failed to do any research [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] )

    Perhaps someone knows another type of flower it looks more like.

    Regards, Ross

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    hibiscus it certainly is, grows wild in my mothers garden.

    Very nice.

    Those orchids have a lot to answer for, as they have put everything else in the shade.

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    Well it's nice to know someone thinks this does look like hibiscus. The flower developed out of a 150 step blend between two fractal plasma filled shapes that each had very high levels of fractal plasma transparency.

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    Wow Ross, beautiful!! That is soooo not vector at all. Do you think anyone could have forseen this much advancement in vector when it was created?
    One suggestion though: The steman (I think that's what you call it, I'm too lazy to do any research right now either [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] ), or little green thing, looks a little fake, or just doesn't blend in with the rest. It sticks out from the very dark spot in the center of the flower. I'd suggest making a black linear transparency going up it so it blends a little better with it's background.
    Great Painting

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    Hello Ross,

    This is a photo from my garden, up close and personal...

    Regards, Joel
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    Looks more like you were inpired by Georgia O'Keefe :-)

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    ..,Ross!! Nice work.

    Interesting the description of the drawing process.
    That helps all to understand that Xara is not something difficult to 'draw' with. I like the dominating factor of 'dimension'or size of the flower.

    regards..bill

    There are SO many varieties of the hibiscuss ('Amapola',in Puerto Rico) Check out this one I
    did to incorporate in a logo design.
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    ... image, Ross. I like the size of the flower and your blend technique gives it a really soft apperance.

    Super!

    Risto

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    Here's a version that incorporates the hard-2-draw parts of Joel's hibiscus pic. Is it cheating? - Of course it is! Maybe when I have the time I'll actually draw those parts. Heck it might even look more real.

    Regards, Rossy

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