Gary Bouton's Xara Stuff

[Gare]

This began as an attempt to draw one of those iconic plastic ducks...and then I realized I needed to flesh out the non-idea a little more!

Live effects for the reflection, and a Bleach mode photographed cloud in the sky.



My Best,

Gary

[Gare]

In the "Try as Hard as you can without directions from the client" Department, these are early version of the CorelDRAW Official Guide cover. If you've ever seen the final cover for Xtreme 5:

1. I was WAY off on my approach. Every software company wants their box on the cover, whether they actually ship boxes or DVDs or not. and

2. I eventually did do the cover in a manner of speaking. I (almost) reproduced minimiro's spectacular illustration of the technical pens, and then modeled the boxes and did some text fitting here...



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[Gare]

I wanted to do something that sits comfortably between photorealism and illustration:



My Best,

Gary

[Rik]

Pretty cool, Gary.

Now. What would you write on your photo-realistic illustration?!

[Ron Duke]

Very nice Master Gare. Did you convert lines to objects, OR, how did you do the rings?

[Gare]

Thank you, Sir Ron!

What I did was draw lines, convert them to shapes, and then filled them with your "standard" goldish artifacting—linear deep gold to light gold gradient to the horizon, and then sort of a mirror of the linear gradient at the bottom. Which isn't photorealistic...first, cheap notebooks don't have gold rings (!) and if they did, they'd be picking up some of the white paper with light blue rules at the bottoms of their reflections.

Fool disclosure: although I was pleased with the result, my intention was to use the drawing as custom icon for TXT files. And I did .

My Best and the Beginning of Happy Holidays,

Gary

[gray]

I like the way you did those rings, Gary.

[Gare]

I feel that my gallery here is so ponderously packed that it takes 5 minutes to scroll down to this page.

So I'm created an annex, a second gallery that I will attend to and probably over-populate in due time.


Right here, no, no— to the left, there, right here ☜
I hope you'll enjoy work by a fellow Xarist, who is prolific these days because I'm "between" books—remember "books" and a big thanks to all who venture outr and create galleries of their own here and other gallery locations on the Web!

Happy Click+dragging,

Gary

[wizard509]

probably over-populate in due time.

Probably but we always enjoy seeing your work Gare.

[Gare]

You are most kind, Larry.

and Ron Duke is second kind.

I'm kidding, I'm kidding! A play n words, sorry!