Drop Cap October 2014

**wizard509** · 02 October 2014, 06:15 PM

This month the Letter is M

**wizard509** · 02 October 2014, 09:12 PM

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I couldn't decide on which one of these so here is all 3.

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**Egg Bramhill** · 02 October 2014, 10:55 PM

Always like the stained glass ones Larry.

Here's my contribution.

**wizard509** · 03 October 2014, 04:15 PM

Thought I replied yesterday Egg, but apparently not. I really like this one. Looks like pewter.

**Egg Bramhill** · 03 October 2014, 05:01 PM

Hi Larry,

Thanks. I was trying to get a Celtic Knot type affect. I did a search for "Celtic M" and came up with this one

I didn't want to copy it exactly, just used it as the base for my drawing. The original is an embroidered letter M, which I liked but couldn't see any purposeful way of achieving the embroidery effect in Xara so went for a stone effect often seen on Celtic Knot images. It became quite complex with lots of bevels and contours.

Looking at it again, I'm happy with pewter, very similar effect.

**iamtheblues** · 04 October 2014, 07:59 AM

Definitely worth all the work you put into it, Egg.
Mine is a fairly straightforward use of a font (Arboret) which I converted to editable shapes, ungrouped twice and then used the Break Shapes command in the Arrange Menu to enable me to recolour the leaves. I also drew a circle around each of the berries so that I could slice them and recolour them as well.
In the second version I used three textures with different transparencies (including Luminosity to get the colour variations) clipped inside the original drop cap to achieve an interesting effect.
Bob.