Stop & Post June 2008

[wizard509]

Just fiddlin' around trying to improve my Xara Xtreme skills. Judging by the quality of the rest of the posts, and how long it takes me to get something done, I've still got a lot to learn.

I'm like you; it takes me a long time too. I know I still have a lot to learn. Most of the time goes to just figuring out how to make my idea work, and I make lots of mistakes along the way. Fortunately Xara make it fun, and easier than it would be with any other program. But that's just my opinion.
Keep plugging away.
Larry

[Soquili]

A smiling cherry. A doodle that happened after making a smiling red face for Seagull earlier today.

[a4hire]

Nice cherry doodle Bill!

[RTK]

Some caricatures created in between "more important" things to do, in the last 3 days. The website links in my profile are gone, but if anyone finds their way back to the "source" ... Please remember that any rude remarks on the website are meant to be just that -- rude remarks... It's all Web "fly-paper".

Art? No!

Compulsiveness? Yes, a little bit!

Xara? Levels, copyright addition and export, and plain simple storage in a beautifully slim Xara wrapper.

Again... Art? Absolutely not!

Risto

[Ron Duke]

Neat, Risto. You know what it reminds of is caracatures on the front of the old TV Guides.

[Soquili]

Yes very neat.

One observation. The caricature of Elvis in the lower left corner should be flipped along the vertical axis. Elvis impersonators curl the right side of their mouth because they practice looking into a mirror. Elvis actually curled the left side of his mouth.

[ss-kalm]

Risto,

Are the caricatures drawn, or distorted photographs? If they are drawn they are brilliant. If distorted they are merely well done! Interesting nontheless.

[RTK]

Ahhh... That Elvis "curl"... Soquili, the caricature is not of Elvis, it's that of an Elvis impersonator... Darn... Have to flip that one.

Keith, they are just quick liquify/goo manipulations of photographs (with some added "flavour" (which also help disguise some "mishaps")). Done about 800 of them in the last year - takes about 5 minutes each (including the upload/web page).

The point of it all? If I happen to "irritate" just the right "clique", it brings in web traffic = some who find their way to my other sites = fly-paper.

Closer look at Abe.

Risto

[geminiguy]

Risto likes to suck em in, and beat em up, hehe... it's wicked funny and a joy to read...

[ren2980]

This is a card designed for a friend's company, I am still working on it.