Stop & Post June 2012

**MEB** · 03 June 2012, 12:51 AM

Hello everyone,

June is here, it´s time for a new Stop & Post thread!
Now that Xara Designer PRO X and Photo & Graphic Designer MX 2013 were released i´m sure there´s a lot of people having fun with them.
As always, please post whatever your have been working on. It doesn´t matter if it´s finished or not as long as it has been done with Xara software.

See you next month,
Happy posting!

**gwpriester** · 03 June 2012, 12:36 PM

I have been working on a logo design and a new website for a new stereogram partnership with Brad Honeycutt, who has been acting unofficially as our agent. Now it will be official.

The blue logo is the one we selected.

**Soquili** · 03 June 2012, 03:17 PM

I like the blue one as well Gary.

**Karateed** · 03 June 2012, 04:48 PM

Totally agree, of course by agreeing, that is totally, isn't it?

**wizard509** · 03 June 2012, 06:48 PM

I agree about the blue one too.

**handrawn** · 03 June 2012, 08:50 PM

and talking of eyes [you chose the right one, lets face it the only one Gary] heres a very simple one

the iris is a stone fill given a bit of concentric wave - it looks rather like my own [except my eyes are grey with orange flecks] what would I do without myself as a model...

**gwpriester** · 10 June 2012, 01:25 AM

If nobody posts in this thread it's going to go away. And it has been with us for some time since Simon started it years ago.

C'mon folks. What are you up to???

**MEB** · 10 June 2012, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

If nobody posts in this thread it's going to go away. And it has been with us for some time since Simon started it years ago.

I hope not Gary. It still gets a lot of page views. I think most people just prefer to open new topics to showcase their best work. After all they spent a lot of time working on them so it´s understandable they want to focus and discuss it in a dedicated topic of their own. But there´s still people posting here, and there´s some interesting work in progress being shown. With that said i´m certainly guilty for not posting much lately. I´ve been spending my time testing ways to implement some stuff in Xara sites like Google fonts and some scripts. Anyway here´s some work i´ve done in Xara recently:

This is a simple layout i created in Xara to showcase some photos of a recent trip.
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I´ve done some progress in my Nissan illustration too.

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**Penny O'Rorke** · 10 June 2012, 05:14 PM

It would indeed be sad to lose this thread. The greeting card company has just taken the last batch of my designs, so I'm playing with these, based very loosly on William de Morgan's tiles. I want to try for the iridescent look but am not yet sure how..........
Penny

**angelize** · 10 June 2012, 07:49 PM

Those are really pretty Penny, I like the lighter ones the best.

Here is what I have been experimenting with this morning (most definitely a work in progress!) I am trying to capture the look of steam floating up and forming letters. I am using the shapebuilder and eraser tools for this, but I think my technique needs more refining and I think a background with less gray in it might make the steam look better.