Gary Bouton's Xara Stuff

[gray]

Generous offer Gary, you have some good stuff there.

[Gare]

Thank you, Graham—

I've never thought of size determining the worth of a piece of art. So, yeah, these tiny guys are art I can be proud of, but they're also neat little studies and ornaments.

And this is evidently the Season for ornaments!

My Best,

Gary

[buckobeck]

Thanks for the gift Gary. Those are some nifty little items.

[Gare]

I wish I had more, Mark. The Giveaway of the Month of XX was a hit and I was only too glad to give away some good examples for members to decompile.

Anyone going to drop anything in the local Toys for Tots bin? Xara files don't cut it!

(I'm honestly not doing it as less-than-subtle bragging, okay?)

[Gare]

This is about half Xara work, half physical drawing I scanned, and half just plain silly.



I feel a little weird being possessive (creatively) of what amounts to a sphere with arms and legs, but I did created a Smirk—this character that is not a smiley (it smirks) back in 1992, before the 7Up talking ball, and way, way before those M&M guys.

-g

[gray]

Perfect little guy, Gary. I like the expressions.

[wizard509]

I like it very much Gare.

[Gare]

This might very well be an open critiqué and a work in Progress:

I am very taken with both the simplicity and the timelessness of Gary Indiana's "LOVE" sculpture (and icon and T-shirt, and so on). So much so, that I took a whack at expressing "Love" in a similarly simple buy striking fashion. And spent more time in Xar arranging the elements than you'd believe. I tried just about every combination of casting the L.O,V and E in East/West, North/South positions, and this one seems to be the most pleasing, at least to me it is:




Thoughts?

TIA,

Gary

P.S. I think the idea stands without the grunge filters I applied. I just wanted to brown it up a little; I "love" to do stuff like that.

[Gare]

Once again, I tried my hand at visualizing a plane, this time a sea plane, this time a simple toy one.




The deceptively small number of unique shapes is due to the fact that the seaplane's component objects are almost all repeating linear fills. The wood grain is a Loony Tunes/ Porky the Pig burst (sort of) three control stops, and I skewed the fill in several instances, once in a while using the Distortion filter.

Th-th-that's all! :)

My Best,

Gary

[Ron Duke]

Really great, Gare!