Jono's life sans Xara

[gray]

All good creative work, Jono. Always enjoy seeing what you are up to.

[Jonopen]

Hi All,

I'm not exactly sure why, but since (mostly) switching away from Xara* and from Windows to a Mac, I think my output and productivity has really gone downhill. Maybe I've just been busier/distracted in other areas of my life. I have got a few of creative projects simmering on the back burner so hopefully if I can get in the right frame of mind, I'll be back up to speed.



A) March scribble - It's all in the nose!

B) copy of an Oscar Reutersvärd 'impossible object'. I've put this one through Prisma (iPad bitmap filter app) to give it a painterly look.

C) odium!

D) again, just fiddling about

E) even more experimenting. Jeez, what am I actually doing with my life?

F) documenting the drawing of a fish eye! This is all vital stuff you know! ;-)

G) tree image from the past that I plan to redevelop further. It was originally made for an A3 sized screen print.

*I've actually bought a copy of Xara Photo & Graphic Design to test how Windows scaling looked. (it looks great, as does Windows!).

[handrawn]

just be creative in every thing you do jono [well unless you are explaining yourself to Mr Plod ]

way to go...

[Jonopen]

just be creative in every thing you do jono [well unless you are explaining yourself to Mr Plod ]

way to go...

When I was a kid, after a bit of a night out, I was walking home carrying a big gnarly old log, and you guessed it, Mr Plod apprehended me! I can't remember the exact details (obviously), but think I got away with it by saying I was an art student!

[wizard509]

They look good Jono I may not like all of t but all in all in all good work.

[Jonopen]

Hello all, it's been a while but here's my latest roundup of bits and pieces (aka 'stuff').

Except for these doodles and experiments, things have been fairly quiet digitally. I have however recently discovered a local print studio that can do A2 giclée prints, which has really got my cogs going again.

As usual a few of the images originated from the Scribble challenge or were inspired from topics on the TG forum. For example the magazine, where I tried out Affinity Designer's new warp tool to layout the text (image below).

[gwpriester]

Nice. Keep on being creative.

[Jonopen]

Hello all, It's funny how things come together. I've been wanting to produce a set of 12 or so stamps for a (top secret at the moment) project that's been on the back burner for years. A third party content producer (Artifex Forge) has just released a collection of graphics, styles and brushes (for Affinity Designer/Illustrator) for creating vintage postage stamps. So anyway, I thought I kick start the project and give them a go.

Although the graphics pack contains a load of ready made stamp templates, to understand how it all works, I recreated a stamp from scratch after deconstructing one of the template files. In actual fact I don't think there's anything in the pack that can't be done with Xara, it would just take a different approach.

Anyhow, after lots of head scratching here's my first shot. For fun I've also included July's 2023's scribble line in the 'J' of Jono!

Hopefully I'll get another 'graphics roundup' together to post here soon.

[gray]

I always found stamps fascinating when I was a kid. The designs and styles always caught my eye. Sounds like an interesting project to design your own.