Wings

**TwidderBird** · 05 May 2006, 08:53 AM

I like these. the style of your flower painting is original--so I think. the grass in them, I wonder if you used a feather brush. feather or no feather it works.
your grass painting...I have wanted for a long time to draw/paint grass like that but never have been able to. are the grass blades a shape in vector?
nance

**molucca** · 05 May 2006, 01:33 PM

Nance,

The weed flowers were macro images. I did this one in pieces. The images were about 6000 points long. I drew a couple of test leaves. I made the image into a stroke and used Effect lines. The image is on its side for the stroke direction. Not perfect, but I'm working out the method.

Rich

**TwidderBird** · 05 May 2006, 03:13 PM

I don't think I've asked--does expression have vector drawing, freehand, or both?
you speak here sorda like the stroke is a user defined preset shape. are stroke and p.shape the same or am I getting confused

oh, by the way -in my opinion anyway, not perfect can often be more artistic
nance

**molucca** · 05 May 2006, 08:41 PM

Vector and bitmap. There are strokes, but you can make your own. Strokes follow a path, and can be vector or bitmap. Grayscale image strokes shift the white to transpatent, and the gray can be colorized. EGD has pixel painting as well.

Rich

**Mike S** · 06 May 2006, 01:29 PM

Rich got some cool pics going on here. hopefully i can find some time and brush the dust off my camera and telescope and start taking some to. like the macro with the leaves but needs some more "character". anyways great work as always

**molucca** · 06 May 2006, 03:26 PM

A scan of the leaf as an image stroke with variable width. Rich

**molucca** · 06 May 2006, 08:50 PM

A leaf with map fill and shading. Rich

**TwidderBird** · 07 May 2006, 09:23 AM

grass leaves in #26 are excellant. 'non-perfect'
took awhile to see the perspective of the dandylion using the size and placement as from a noon-time position. the dandylion-flower is excellant but the shading dosen't fit with the lighting of the leaves
some type of underneath background might help with emphasizing the perspective of the weed-if that is your goal
nance

**molucca** · 07 May 2006, 12:51 PM

Thanks Nance,

I scanned in a piece of grass and made an image stroke. It was shaped with variable width, but didn't come to a point as much as I wanted. The image was warped into a pointed shape for a new stroke.

I may make a vector leaf stroke and try to unstructure the leaves. This may let me color the shape after drawing it in perspective. Still have a lot to learn. There is a shading map to darken the edges of the leaf. With uniform color, it appeared as a single mass.

I have lots of flower images, but too many leaves.

Rich