Well, then, Happy Refreshing!
I need to address beginning level tasks every month in a while, you know. :)
My Best,
Gary
Well, then, Happy Refreshing!
I need to address beginning level tasks every month in a while, you know. :)
My Best,
Gary
It's good even for those of us who use the software on a daily basis to be reminded of the basics now and again
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Well, in that case, I hope I got it all correct!
If not, and even if so, let's discuss right here.
After spending quality time with the shape tool, I believe it's possible to wean myself away from the Pen tool. And we're talking more than 20 years using a vector pen-type tool.
I must admit I crave a B-spline tool now and then, though.
Everybody, get that clock tower drawn now! :)
My Best,
Gare
Last edited by Gare; 16 October 2012 at 06:12 PM. Reason: Chuck didn't really love Ned the Pieman
Hey, does a start count? <g>...
Still gotta take the time for more of the 3D pieces parts. Probably something to do while "watching" the debate tonight.
Take care, Mike
That is FABULOUS, Mike!
With the Shape and ellipse tools, right?
you even did the little nuances of the number markers receding as the "numbers" grow higher.
What a piece, man. You make an aging teacher very, very happy.
-g
Drew them flat (didn't trace), did the 3D thing and used the angle settings to mimic the angles of your original. Why not trace the 3D flat image? Because it is next to impossible for me to match the angles and perspective once the vector drawing becomes a 3D object.
This is the most 3D stuff I have *ever* done in Xara. So this has been fun.
But yes, the shape tool is my friend.
take care, Mike
Fool Disclosure:
There is indeed a slight perspective on the "camera" angle capturing the scene—the clock tower is not "dead on", thus complicating a totally accurate trace.
But that wasn't the point of the tutorial—it was just to get everyone's head around:
1. There is nothing wrong with tracing. Heck, Leonardo DaVinci and Norman Rockwell both traced off areas of source material, and a pantograph, one of my favorite childhood "toys", is nothing more than a big tracing machine. As long as you generated the source image, what you trace is your own. Or if you're skilled enough to make something original from a source you own, you can call a finished piece your own with an ethical conscience. And if not, you still develop skills by tracing.
2. Generally, how to work with control points, and specifically, those control points and handles that are a product of the Shape tool.
Damned clever and ambitious, Mike. you are a gifted technician, man—I wish I had your chops.
Here's my "make good": this image was capped within the modeler; and oops, the side view is a tad smaller than the front. But there is no perspective, this is an isometric view.
Actually what comes around goes around, because I designed the paths for the model in Xara, with the Shape tool.
-g
Last edited by Gare; 16 October 2012 at 08:41 PM. Reason: Bonus content
Excellent video Gary
I learnt a couple of new things
Shows you're never too young or too old to learn new stuff
If someone tried to make me dig my own grave I would say No.
They're going to kill me anyway and I'd love to die the way I lived:
Avoiding Manual Labour.
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