Visited your website again. Just amazed at your skill. I really don't have words for it.
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Visited your website again. Just amazed at your skill. I really don't have words for it.
And extremely modest!
Oh, beyond compare, modest!
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I did this as a tutorial in Xara Xtreme 5: The Official Guide, and personally I like the result enough to just post it as finished art here.
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My Best,
Gary
That's neat Gare. I'd like to see the tutorial for that. Maybe I could if I get my hands on the book. Actually I own the book but my brother has it.
Masterful would be a the word, Gary.
I thank you, Graham, especially coming from someone who routinely creates Xara illustrations that pass as photography!
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I’m getting into the “Low Res” art fad, which by definition will be out of style before I can cash in on the trend. :) But the creation of simple shapes is quite relaxing, and it gives me the opportunity to play a little with color schemes, and I’ve actually discovered a few shades I can use in other style drawings with some nice effect and impact.
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A lollipop that happens to have a chewy, chocolate center (that you can't see in this drawing)
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I read a tutorial by a giving fellow artist on how to approach LowRes art using CorelDRAW, but it isn’t hard to adapt his steps to Xarists:
1. Choose an exceedingly simple subject: a fruit or vegetable posed again a solid or gradient background, a spool of thread, a vase with a single flower, an ornate glass of juice, just about anything simple that has interesting shading, linear or circular gradient shading is ideal.
2. I suggest putting an image you’d take with a camera in the document and then lock it. Reference is just about crucial to getting the finished art with a good effect.
3. Begin somewhere toward the center of the object; let’s stick with triangles for the LowRes composition; draw a triangle around an area that has basically a solid color in the photo.
4. Evaluate this triangle compared against the photo, and you might want to either eyedropper the color (and then manually refine the applied color.
5. Turn on snapping. Then click a point near the first triangle, and then click your second point close to but not touching a control point on the original triangle.
6. Now click+drag the second point t meet the control point on the first shape. THIS is how the snap to feature is best used so there is absolutely no gap between shapes, another necessary criterion for this type of artwork.
7. Fill the shape and continue to snap triangle control points around areas that look as though they’re a solid color.
8. Basically, that’s it. It takes some time, and definitely use shapes of different sizes to express different shades in the photo. This technique keeps the art interesting, so it looks simplistic, but not so simple it looks like proud parent displaying their child’s Fridge Art…um, on a fridge.:)
Good luck and HAVE FUN, because it is fun to do, and partially because it’s Friday and most everyone can sleep in.
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