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August and time for schools to begin classes again. At least in this part of the world. ;)
Please take a few moments to stop what you are working on and share some of your Xara created images. Works in progress or finished images, what ever you would like to share.
The attached image uses some of the great clipart included with Xara X(treme).
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I am determined to get a strip off the ground that is 100% xtreme [possibly because I opened my big mouth a month or two back and said I would :o:D]
so mug shot of one of the characters I am working on....
its going better than I expected... :)
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handrawn
I am determined to get a strip off the ground that is 100% xtreme ...
Unique style as always :) Nice. How much of the sketchy look do you intend to preserve in the final drawing? Just curious how would it look like in simple vector version compared to "hand drawn" style :)
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Again sports girl, not yet finished completely. I'll be back online in about 15 days, expect final version by then :)
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thanks John and Suvek - look forward to the finished Sports Girl, looks great :)
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How much of the sketchy look do you intend to preserve in the final drawing?
Humm not sure - I'm no fan of slick lines in themselves - one reason I guess that I have avoided using xtreme for linework up to now.
A couple of year ago I tried to use xtreme stroke shapes to render lines and though there are of course members here who do just that really well, it did not work for me.
All about style - I have to draw in one go - if it does not work I don't correct, I do it again.
Laying down path/lines, and shaping after, I just do not do; so shape editor tool is out as far as drawing goes too.
So... that really means the xtreme custom brushes. Vexating though they can be, almost always are, they are pressure sensitive and I have learnt how to get results I like by sticking to a specific drawing technique ..
Attached are two examples - both done with the natural media 'felt tip' brush, remade to be black and with pressure settings adjusted to suit my tablet settings and hand - the left hand one was done at zero smoothing, and the right hand one at the default 50% smoothing and a wider pressure range.
All I can say at this stage is it is likely somewhere between the two...;)
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Hello! here is my new drawings with Xara X.
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Welcome Black Panther
Very nice images.
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Thank you Gary, here is another Drawings, hope you like it.
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Good work, Black Panther! That Coke looks refreshing!
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Three design for a new clothing store that specializes in unisex bike riding gear. http://www.gwpriester.com/5th-Gear/
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Three design for a new clothing store that specializes in unisex bike riding gear.
Not that my vote necessarily counts, but, I like the blue & green with wall shadow one the best.
Very nice, as always, Gary
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+1 for the first one too :)
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Great character Steve! I like his glasses and profile.
Suvek, your ladies are wonderful. This one looks about done to me, she is so good.
Black Panther, excellent work on all your images.
Ankor, the 'face' is fascinating....like an image in an image.
Gary, I like the 1st and the 3rd. The middle one is hard to read for me. Depending on what the product is, would determine which color combination to use for the end design.
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Doodling (extroodling) and made this hollow metal rolling pin by accident.
At the end of the handle is a removable cap allowing the rolling pin to be filled with cold water. The theory is that the coolness of the pin's surface prevents pastry from adhering to it.
Saludos,
Bob.
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You made that fantastic rolling pin by accident? Wow, I'd like to see more accidents. A spy glass, perhaps? Very cool.
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a process in the afore mentioned strip design [please ignore the text tool accidently selected instead of transparency tool :o:D]
The reason that the deconstructed brush shape ends up transparent is because the brush is made up of transparent shapes.
When making the brush line this is not always obvious as they overlap, but you can notice it during the zoom in at the top of the eyes for example [the brush is the 'felt tip' remade to be black not blue]
when the shapes are combined the result is a single shape grouped by itself, so it needs to be ungrouped to remove transparency..... the stroke shape is raindrop
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Nice one Steve! :D Love watching the process. You make it look so darn simple!
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Steve, thanks for sharing your procedure. I learned something watching that. Never understood why we break shapes but I see now.
John, beautiful design...very nice.
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Thanks, Steve, for the demo.......fascinating stuff!
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Just a little something I'm working on to practice and experiment with color techniques.
It's definitely a work-in-progress,
Harry
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Excellent! I like the whole image as a finished picture or advert. Very good job on the lipstick. I have to use guides more often and I like the color chart right on the page...clever.
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Excellent! ...I like the color chart right on the page...clever.
Thanks, Nancy. I finished the piece (for now ;)) and posted it in the Xara Art Gallery in this thread, Xtreme Lipstix. If you or anyone else wants to check it out.
With regards to the color chart, that's one I picked up a few years ago. It took me a while to track down the source for you. I should have known it was one of Gary Priester's :rolleyes:. It's from his Xara Xone Workbook #60, page 2. You can read the write up and access the link to the Gary_s_Pallete.xar file from there. It's about half way down the page. The instructions for making it one of your Xtreme templates is also included in the write up. As I said, it's been my default template for years now.
IHTH,
Harry
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This came from a photo of an interesting building hoarding in London......the magic of Xara......
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Harry, thanks for the link...cool...bookmarked it.
Penny, your Xara magic is wonderful. I like the geometric design you created.
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Thanks everyone for posting - always good to see work in progress
Thanks John and Penny for the kind words
.. and Nancy too
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Penny O\'Rorke
This came from a photo of an interesting building hoarding in London......the magic of Xara......
COME ON ho did you get that?.
Fantastic !!!!!
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I started a plane last night but I ran into the same problem that I do most times. How does everyone decide what part to make first and how much of it?
The plane I'm recreating looks to be made of riveted sheets of metal. I don't know if I should make each piece that looks riveted a separate piece or if I should make an entire background/silhouette of the body and place lines that look like rivets ontop of it.
I think I spend so much time trying to figure out how to construct my work as much as actually doing it. Is there a way to speed up the process by using 'rules of thumb'? (not to be confused with Mike's 'thumbnail').
Here's how far I've gotten. I went the 'entire silhouette' route but not sure it's the way to do it.
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Hi Nancy,
Looks like a P-40 Warhawk with Flying Tiger paint job. :)
May I recommend doing the entire silhouette/outline. You can fill in more or less detail as you see fit as you work on the image.
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Nancy,
It looks like what you're doing is working so far. You're off to a great start.
I don't know of any 'rules of thumb' but I tend to start with the largest and darkest area shapes first then build detail and lighter areas on top until I'm satisfied with what I've done. Everyone probably wonders why I'm addicted to doing so many tutorials from various sources. Well, the answer is, it continues to give me a lot of insight on how graphic artists, on a professional level, use their program of choice to build up a complex graphic, like your airplane, from simple shapes. When I quit learning new techniques from the available tutorials, then I guess I'll stop trying to do them.
I, for one, can't wait to see your completed plane.
Thanks for the sneak peek,
Harry
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Thank you both for the responses. I knew I should have done the whole silhouette :( I could have copied it in place then sliced out portions. Now I have to do the under-belly and cockpit separately.
I'm quite please with the nose and paint job so far. Looks very much like the photo I took. There were 2 of these at the show. One had a compartment (that I have not made yet) on the side open so you could see the works inside. I'm trying to recreate the other one...it had a shinier paint job.
When I get this done I'll post the photo too.
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Very cool plane Nancy. I've been playing with an inlaid wood text effect this is what I've got so far.
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Your wood looks so real. Excellent.
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Nancy,
My preference is to do a background for the main body with few exceptions. Not knowing what the photo looks like I'll have to imagine that I would draw the wings separate from the fuselage as this would make coloring and shading much easier for me.
What you've done so far looks awesome!
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Thank you Ron. It's slow going for me with this as I'm having a very hard time making out the understructure of the plane. I hate to leave all the flaps and bulges off of it as it would look unrealistic.
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hello burpee,
I always start drawing the contour to be able to intersect or clip view any piece inside it, that gives me the oportunity to not draw every border because the main cntour serves as a container.
Next I pay attention to draw from bottom to front and avoid sending shapes backwards, that is to say, I'm lazy every click I can save is welcome.
The other tip is to use just the creative days, many days every shape looks difficult and other days it flows without problem.
I hope it is useful.
Best regards
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another detail.
I choose evry shape according its color, transparency or light direction