Gare's non-Xara Art

[Gare]

Thanks!

As I mentioned, it's not what the art says, it's the tone, the way it's laid out that was important to imitate and capture.

And I hope you never own a goldfish that large! That's a Mangrove Red Snapper I downloaded from this free 3D website The water and bottle are my own sculptures, but I don't have the artistic chops to do a fish yet.

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[Gare]

A music CD cover I illustrated, the muse of music, of course! :)



Here's an earlier attempt, when I didn't know what I was trying to get across:



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[angelize]

very nice.

[Gare]

This is mostly color and image depth. The objects weren't all that hard to sculpt!



My Best,

Gary

[Gare]

I have no idea where these two images came from...

[Gare]

I did this because I don't believe in relying on cloud storage...so I still burn music CDs.

[angelize]

That box looks familar!

The record with the plastic converter piece in the center brings back memories!

[a4hire]

Great thread and great work Gare. No matter what software you used it's nice to see.

[wizard509]

Great thread and great work Gare. No matter what software you used it's nice to see.

I have to agree with Bruce here.

[Gare]

Thanks Bruce and thanks, Larry—

I really don't know how to reply to someone when they ask me, "So you run the Xara Xone. Why didn't you do that piece in Xara?"

I use Xara Designer every day, it's the hub of all the tools I use, but I don't make work hard for myself when I have an idea that's best expressed using specific tools. That's not being a "loyalist"; that's just masochistic. Funny: for decades, I did what people considered to be pretty accomplished pen and inks, and pencil sketches, and not once did someone ask me whether I used a Ticonderoga, or a Castell-Faber pencil. Now there's so much branding with software, one gets labeled a "Photoshoppist", or a "Xaraist" or whatever!

My agent and I pitched the Xara Official Guide for years, and I think when version 4 was out, I did this as a cover illustration, using both Xara and a modeling program.



I guess the publisher who finally bought the title felt that the "Swiss Army knife" wasn't a good metaphor for the program. I guess you could run with Xara and hurt yourself if you fell.

My Best,

Gary