the next day

After shifting 1/2 ton of bind weed out of a tree yesterday, I calmed down by drawing the flower. Today I find the flower I drew still there on the desk, looking a little sadder

After shifting 1/2 ton of bind weed out of a tree yesterday, I calmed down by drawing the flower. Today I find the flower I drew still there on the desk, looking a little sadder

Lovely image.

The bitmap however seems to have obliterated some of your border. If you apply a 100% Stained Glass to your bitmap, all white will become invisible and your black border will show though.

Which brings up my next question. Are you creating these images in Xara, or just adding the borders?

Gary

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This is 100% xara with not a bitmap to be seen. Only fractal cloud fills and feathered transparent solids. I was particularly pleased with the green foliage at the base of the flower, I don't know what that bit of the plant is called, but it was interesting to do.

If I understand you correctly, the fade out of the border was intentional, if I had put it behind the flower it would have shown through. There is only detail in the flower itself no actual white fill. Anyhow, I have removed the border.

[This message was edited by masque on August 19, 2001 at 11:15.]

[This message was edited by masque on August 19, 2001 at 11:19.]

Especially the leaves. That greenery is super.
I hope both the flower and the drawing of it soothed you after the day's frustrating work.
Fine illustration. Neil

I thought you had made the comment that you needed to work less with bitmaps and somehow I thought maybe this image was done with bitmaps.

I stand (or rather sit) corrected.

To get the black boder to do what you originally intended, convert it to editable shapes, then using the Shape Editor Tool, click on the outline at the start and end point of each overlap, and select Break at Points. See attached image.

A more accurate way to do this also is to convert the outline to shape (Arrange > Convert Line to Shape) and use a duplicate of the shape to Combine Shapes > Subtract Shapes.

Gary

Gary

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Flower. I like the texture on the white part and just below it where it connects to the stem.

1) could you post an outline of it to give us a very of the vector detail;

2) Is this a vector drawing of a photo/scan, or did you draw it freehand?

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Great compliment from Gary to think it was a bit map.

I feel I'd be insulting you to suggest any change, but (here goes) would like to see it on a non white background - pale green maybe.

Turan

I've posted the outline for the two flower drawings.
Hope it shows you what you wanted to know.

As for the drawing, it was done as a rough pencil sketch which was scanned to give my mouse a guide to run on.

I don't have a tablet such as the Wacom to draw something like this directon to the PC, come to think of it I don't have a camera either as it was stolen along with the car a year or so ago.

the first flower drawing. Before it shiveled.

And concerning the next day, drawing dirty or damaged things is allways a good test for a digital drawing tool!

Regards,

ivan