Gary Bouton's non-Xara Art II

**Ron Duke** · 29 September 2016, 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by Gare

Oh, let me be totally honest, here, Ron. I did not render or model out pet cat Alice. I just modeled the hammer and Photoshopped it into her paw using an existing photo,

Same deal with Domino, our Norwegian Coon:

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And I'll try to defend the posting of this by saying it's iconic and Fair Use:

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Photoshop, and Xara, and little pieces od photos and rendered models can produce some very weird and occasionally wonderful results!

In the wrong hands, of course.

My Best,

Gary

LOL!!
I realized the cat wasn't drawn. I was specifically referring to your other works. 😆

**Gare** · 29 September 2016, 11:07 PM

@Graham, thanks!

Hey, my passtimes keep me off the streets.

You really don't want me on the streets.

@Ron, thanks once again, my friend.

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**gray** · 01 October 2016, 04:34 PM

I'm glad we're keeping you off the streets and out of trouble.

**Gare** · 01 October 2016, 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by gray

I'm glad we're keeping you off the streets and out of trouble. :)

Yeah, God knows I might try to single-handedly invade Berserkistan or something.

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**gray** · 01 October 2016, 06:46 PM

I like it. A monument to ourselves. A small race of ape like creatures on a small planet, in a small solar system among hundreds of billions of solar systems, in a galaxy among hundreds of billions of other galaxies, in a universe we know nothing about. Yes, I think I see why we feel so important now. Yes, yes I see it all now.

Today it's Berserkistan, tomorrow you'll be running for president.

**Gare** · 06 October 2016, 12:50 AM

Thanks for that, Graham.

Here's a piece that's technocally a remdered model, but its shape was entirely drawn in Xara.

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It's basically just and extrude, with several other pieces broken out from the shape, and thewy'r extruded, too.

So if you want to recreate this in Xara, I've attached the Xara drawing.

Um, it has no headphone jack, so you'll have to use BlueTooth.

My Best,

Gary

**gray** · 06 October 2016, 04:28 PM

That's very cool Gary, thanks. You did a nice piece of work there.

**angelize** · 06 October 2016, 07:43 PM

I decided to have a go at doing the radio completely in Xara. I've started a new thread for my all Xara results here. I'm sure it took me a lot longer than it did you!

**wizard509** · 06 October 2016, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by gray

I'm glad we're keeping you off the streets and out of trouble.

It's a tough job but someone or something has to do it.

Originally Posted by Gare

Here's a piece that's technocally a remdered model, but its shape was entirely drawn in Xara.

My Best,

Gary

Great image Gare. How interesting a floating radio.

**Gare** · 08 October 2016, 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by angelize

I decided to have a go at doing the radio completely in Xara. I've started a new thread for my all Xara results here. I'm sure it took me a lot longer than it did you!

FYI, Frances, I did a Xara version of the radio before attempting to model it, even though it's only a bunch of extrudes.

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Does anyone remember the War Band on the big cathedral radios? My grandmother on my mom's side had this huge, honking wooden radio that didn't have FM, but only AM before they called it that, and the War Band, which was reserved for any alerts or new about the Allies and the German incursions.

I used to tune it when I was about 8, and discovered interesting Citizen's Band stuff going on. I guess after VA Day, the War Band went to civilian use.

My Best,

Gary