Contour Tool art

**handrawn** · 20 September 2007, 01:57 PM

That's very practical Bob - thanks.

FYI generally: Bill has re-posted Ross's contour tutorial in the Crystal Ball thread

**Penny O'Rorke** · 20 September 2007, 02:35 PM

Christmas is coming......................

**Soquili** · 20 September 2007, 02:42 PM

Many great applications of the Contour Tool exhibited in this thread.

The only limitations with most anything is the imagination.

**salaam** · 20 September 2007, 07:43 PM

I like that Penny,
although it isn't a simple 'circular envelope mould' is it?
How did you make it look so 3D?

Thanks Bob,
Useful tip.

**Penny O'Rorke** · 21 September 2007, 02:47 PM

Thanks Bob and Salaam - no, not mould tool, a circle with repeated linear fill and contoured with 100 steps. Then, with fill tool selected, twiddle the centre section until you get the result you want. Here's the .xar file if any use.

**salaam** · 21 September 2007, 03:09 PM

Thanks Penny,

Now that's clever!!

**MarciaB** · 21 September 2007, 04:53 PM

Bob, where did you find that Architext One type ?

Edit : Never mind, I found it at Dafont..

As allways I was too quick...

**gnurf** · 24 September 2007, 01:46 PM

Contour is excellent when drawing maps. Trivia: map02, I was born in Hanko (Hangö) and today I work in Turku, about a 2 hour drive from the home town - and I live in Raisio which is located between Naantali (Nådendal) and Turku (Åbo). And some more triva: Helsinki (Helsingfors) is the capital of Finland, another 2 hour drive from Hanko.

**iamtheblues** · 20 September 2007, 03:46 PM

Purely decorative I know.
Only the background didn't
involve the contour tool.
Saludos,
Bob.

**iamtheblues** · 20 September 2007, 04:13 PM

I wasn't sure if I should post this here as it continues the contour tool thread, or in Graphics Chat. The "Universe" program I used to create the background was made with the feature limited demo of the program found here.
The use of the Amina font; see "making thicker or thinner text" in my post above (#21) set me thinking about the old arcade games like Space Invaders and Galaxian that were popular many years ago. I used the contour tool on the text of the 2 "X" spaceships, the flashes and the lines of tracer (text dashes).
If anyone wants the .xar file to improve the look of the ships, be my guest.
Saludos,
Bob.