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    The old Apothecary drawing has evolved over the months to what you see here. The stones, sidewalk, and yes, even the bricks in the building were actually drawn by me, not bitmaps.
    There are still a few flaws I see, but for now this is it; until I get ambitious enough and Xara can hold out. Xara PRO is having a hard time dealing with 57.7 megabytes of file. Can you blame it. I think it's amazing this program can handle this type of abuse. (I guess I could make bitmaps of parts of the drawing and place the actual vector in dummy files for preservation. That would make loading and saving a lot easier for Xara)

    Anyway, here it is...
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    Default Re: 221 B Revisited

    Look just like something out of PBS Ron. Love it and all that is going on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gwpriester View Post
    Look just like something out of PBS Ron. Love it and all that is going on.
    Thanks Gary! Means a lot coming from you.
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    Default Re: 221 B Revisited

    I like it very much Ron.
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    Default Re: 221 B Revisited

    Hi Ron, that is great, now I see where the coat of arms was going. Question, what is the silver bar at the bottom left next to the blue car?

    Ciao

    Roly

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    Quote Originally Posted by wizard509 View Post
    I like it very much Ron.
    Thanks Teach!
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    Quote Originally Posted by roly View Post
    Hi Ron, that is great, now I see where the coat of arms was going. Question, what is the silver bar at the bottom left next to the blue car?

    Ciao

    Roly
    Thanks Roly. The silver/metal bar is the tail pipe for the exhaust. It's the back end of a 1928 Alvis SD 12-50 (Beatle Back).
    I agree, it is a strange way to have run the exhaust pipe. With no doors, the driver/passenger had to climb over the pipe to get in and out. VERY carefully when the motor had been running for a while. They did wrap that section of the tail pipe with rope (or something like it) to insulate and protect the occupant.
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    Love it, Ron. Wonderful ambiance. Just a few details. I noticed that the facade of the "Coat Rack" Building seems a bit bright and sharply focused, as does the white lettering of the shop sign. This contrasts a bit too much with the much darker and softer shop window. Also, you might want to add some shadowing to the left window frames.

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    Nice work!

    The exhaust pipe is spoiling the composition a bit - grabbing the attention in the foreground.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boy View Post
    Love it, Ron. Wonderful ambiance. Just a few details. I noticed that the facade of the "Coat Rack" Building seems a bit bright and sharply focused, as does the white lettering of the shop sign. This contrasts a bit too much with the much darker and softer shop window. Also, you might want to add some shadowing to the left window frames.
    Ahh, good observations, Boy. I will make adjustments. The brick work is done with named colors, so that shouldn't be much of a problem, and I can put a black filter with linear transparency over the Haberdashery. All the windows have shadows, but I'll darken them a little more to bring it out better. The lettering is too bright, so I'll soften that too.
    Thanks Boy!
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