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After missing a year I have a cartoon this COVID Christmas.

To fill in the back story Henry and Fergus seek adventure by constantly hunting dragons, most times with unexpected results.

Merry...

I have to admit I find his current stuff hard to listen to. He has a major health issue in 2002 (abdominal aneurysm) and that may be why his voice sounds so thin now. But in his day!

This was more image processing than illustration. I'm please with the result.

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Been a while since I posted anything. This is my Entry to this month's Character Design Challenge. This is Thelma celebrating the Carnival of Brazil.

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I find Xara Photo and Graphic...

Oops. The URL should be https://jimskhill.artstation.com/projects/bagBmd .

The dialog is mine. as stated I wrote it 9 years ago and never came up with anything quite like it since.

I do a Christmas cartoon each year.

For 2018 I decided to redo my first one from 2009.

(You can see the original at https://jimskhill.artstation.com/projects/bagBmdhttp:// )

My technique...

Hi all
Christmas Cartoon is attached.

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Regards,
Jim.

Thanks for the advise. That worked like a charm.

I never even knew XaReg existed. And it even allows me to edit the defaults in the Line Size drop down. Big Bonus!

Thank you again!

Regards,...

Thanks for the responses.

I tried both these suggestions, i.e. saving as the Default Template and Running as Administrator and both failed.

I then found that the problem was the button I was...

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I've searched the forum and can't find anything about this issue so I started this thread.

I've upgraded from Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 2013 to Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 and I'm...

Hi All,

Here's my Christmas Cartoon for 2014.

It was drawn using Neopaint 5.1.2 and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 2013.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours!

Regards,...

Hi Frances,
Thought I'd post this work in progress.

This was one of those things that I thought wasn't going too well and put it to one side. Then I went back to it when looking for something to...

Thank you for the kind words Gary.

I did want to do more with the background but I was growing kind of exhausted with the drawing (Am I the only one that happens to ?) and decided to wrap it up....

Technical comments : I used Xara Photo and Graphic Designer 2013. In general I followed a pretty low tech approach - just the line drawing tools and flat colour, although a gradient was used for the...

Thank you for all the kind responses and kudos to WildRice for the drawing of Scamp "meme style" - you caught the essence there with the white patch across the head.
You really take a chance...

This thread was posted to the wrong forum. I've just re-posted it to the correct one.

Sorry folks.

A week ago I decided to draw a Valentines Day Card for my wife inspired by our dog Scamp.

I did an initial sketch using Neopaint (no tracing of photographs here) and then moved it to Xara and used...

This is a coincidence.

I hadn't heard of this meme until today but a week ago I decided to draw a Valentines Day Card for my wife inspired by our dog Scamp.

I did an initial sketch using...

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Another Christmas, another Christmas cartoon.

This one is more topical than the ones of previous years. Note: in Toronto, where I live, we are still recovering from an ice storm.

A...

Another Christmas, another adventure of Henry and Fergus.

It's kind of big. I hope you'll be able to read it!

Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Jim.

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Hi All.

I'm a bit late in posting but attached is my annual Christmas cartoon done in XARA Xtreme 5.
If you have any questions about how it was done please ask.

Merry Christmas to you and...

Hi All,

Attached is a Christmas cartoon I did using XARA Xtreme 5.

In making it I was really impressed with how XARA Xtreme was both powerful and intuitive - attributes that you rarely find...