Jono's life sans Xara

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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.

[Jonopen]

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.

Thanks gray. I'm also fascinated with stamps. Some of them are like miniature artworks. With my project I’m aiming to roughly complete one drawing a month including any research and accompanying text. So see you next year! (only joking, I'm sure I'll be around here before too long).

[Jonopen]

Here’s the latest round-up of imagery that's been loitering on my SSD for the last few months. As usual they've mostly originated from the TG monthly scribble challenge, so they're an eclectic mix of doodles, experiments and ideas.

I’m mainly now using Affinity Designer but dabble with VectorStyler and occasionally with Inkscape. Even after several years, I still have a love/hate relationship with the Mac OS. Probably due to my deeply ingrained past life using Windows.

Cheers, Jono

[Egg Bramhill]

Great compilation Jono.

In actual fact I don't think there's anything in the pack that can't be done with Xara

Just for fun I thought I'd give it a try in Xara. I used the example construction on this page: Page image below.

Here's the result.

The face was created in MidJourney AI using

Imagine : Copperplate illustration of 19th century mans full face, bearded --s 750 --v 5.1 --style raw

and converted to vector using TraceJourney AI and cleaned up in Xara.

The remainder was all Xara creation and the whole drawing is vector. Used Spray.exe to create the noise effect.

Fun to do

[Jonopen]

That's brilliant Egg. Nice use of Spray.exe. I'd forgotten about those little utility programs.

I must check out MidJourney AI and TraceJourney AI. Looks like they could be useful and save a bit of time for my 'stamp project'.

[Egg Bramhill]

Thanks & cheers Jono, it was a fun project. Couple of things I forgot is that using a fractal or cloud fill creates a bitmap as does creating anything other than a floor shadow. I could get around creating a vector glow shadow but the textured fill in Xara isn't possible as far as I can see.

Of course creating vectors, as in the case of the face, makes for very large file sizes so unless it's really required very large isn't worth the effort. Further to this, using a bitmap allows you to use dark/light contones which is great if you want to use named colours across the stamp.

[Jonopen]

Hi all, here's a round-up/montage of my [eclectic] scribble challenge entries from the last few months.



Thank you Rik and Lynn for keeping the L&L Scribble challenge going.

[Egg Bramhill]

Extremely nautical in the main Jono and all excellently enjoyable.