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Frances, I just amended your post to put an exclamation mark beside the subject line, I hope you don't mind.
Post #10.
Folks, Frances has written a complete tutorial for us on how she approached making her jigsaw pattern. I hope you'll download and read it.
And benefit from it!
Yet another way to design this guy! Thanks, Frances.
My Best,
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Christine Farrelly
or you can cheat like this.
I Created original bitmap in a jigsaw program.
Enhanced in photoshop.
Created vector in Vector magic as PDF.
Bevelled in Xara.
I hope you're speaking in jest about cheating, Christine.
I thought you were quite inventive and resourceful. I was wondering how you got the "gloss" along the edges as well as the shading on the pieces. Bevels, eh? Might I recommend the Rounded Bevel type? It 'feels" a little more like and actual puzzle piece.
Great work! And there is no cheating in Art. There is only stealing.
My Best,
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There's no reason why puzzle pieces look like the traditional ones as long as they interlock, right?
Maurits Cornelis Escher (M.C. Escher) was responsible for a lot of optical illusions in the 20th century, and one of them was lizard characters that interlock. This is a homage to this illusion, and also a Valentine's Day gift, attached. :)
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By the way, by the design's nature, it seamlessly tiles. The version I've created will indeed seamlessly tile, so you can expand it, and naturally make the pieces the same colour so it becomes a challenge :)
My Best,
Gary
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Some great posts here so I tried something a little more qwerky than the traditional jigsaw shapes.
Stygg
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Some great posts here so I tried something a little more qwerky than the traditional jigsaw shapes.
Stygg
Stygg, I LOVE it!
And twisted minds think alike! I started a concentric jigsaw puzzle, but then stopped when I realized this is not something I myself would want to play...
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Used the qwerky jigsaw on the cat, he's a bit twisted too :D
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stygg—
May I ask how you are setting up the wavy jigsaw pieces?
Are you Moulding a grid of rectangles and then adding the nubs and voids?
-g
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By all means Gary, I just hope I have made it understandable, it may appear a long method but it works well and once you get into the swing of it, it does not take to long and also you can put the nubs and voids where you choose. I forgot to mention for the voids, slice shapes. :o
Stygg
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stygg2003
By all means Gary, I just hope I have made it understandable, it may appear a long method but it works well and once you get into the swing of it, it does not take to long and also you can put the nubs and voids where you choose. I forgot to mention for the voids, slice shapes. :o
Stygg
Stygg, thank you for what you did, the time it took, your technique, and for sharing. Those are the thing most important to tg.
Someone probably got to this idea first, but here goes: a puzzle of a blank puzzle:
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It's my turn to share a technique I think. I noticed by looking at actual jigsaw pieces that they "bulge" across the top surface, where the printing varnish causes the image stuck over the cardboard to rise most at the center and then tapering off. Therefore, an emboss is okay, but it might be more photorealistic to have highlights within and not outside of the piece like this:
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I think I've got a bizarre but worthwhile technique to map out by tomorrow.
My Best,
Gary
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This is my jigsaw base. It's created from a single line that was created with the shape editor tool - set to curve and smooth join - and a square grid. Length to suit.
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Then the lines are rotated and copied to suit - Not exactly so the pieces are slightly different. Put it over any picture and slice - bevel the resulting pieces to suit.
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