Stop & Post December 2008

**Soquili** · 01 December 2008, 12:53 AM

December 2008 and this year is almost over. Time to begin making plans for the New Year and to share your current work.

**Penny O'Rorke** · 01 December 2008, 05:04 PM

Trying some photo repair.........

**Ron Duke** · 01 December 2008, 05:56 PM

Looks like you did an excellent job repairing it, Penny. Handsome fellow, 19th Century?

**Soquili** · 01 December 2008, 06:07 PM

Extremely well done Penny. How did you recreate the man's left arm? It appears to be in the missing portion of the original photo.

**iamtheblues** · 02 December 2008, 01:44 PM

As a result of spending a bit of time on this thread I have been trying to use a blend of shapes to make a halftone pattern in Xtreme, and got sidetracked blending along a curve.
Saludos, Bob.

**Thatch** · 02 December 2008, 02:16 PM

Haven't posted in a while so I thought I'd share....Here is a simple logo / illustration I did for an internal application I'm working on.

**philbankhill** · 14 December 2008, 08:38 PM

Hi TG people,

Happy Xmas when it comes

I've created a portrait using various Xara features in an attempt to get a semi-photorealistic image. I find hair difficult to simulate. As you'll see from the scarey wireframe, I create individual hairs which I duplicate then duplicate groups of hair to save time and effort. I've tried to create a sense of 3D with the shading and layering with shadow effects. I like the fact that I can create new layers for each part of the drawing, it gives great control over changes that I want to make.

I'd be grateful for any comments and advice on how to improve my work.

Thanks,
Phil

**iamtheblues** · 14 December 2008, 09:30 PM

Hi Phil, the flesh tones are good, the hair is as realistic as I've seen using all vector techniques and the textures on the bow tie and coat are very convincing. It's a good likeness of the man, too. Good work.
Saludos,
Bob.

**Rhanna** · 14 December 2008, 09:40 PM

Phil,
You have done a top job! You have done well with the hair. I think hair is difficult. Though, I have seen some wonderful examples in the forum. I marvel at those graphics.
Rupert

**raynerj1** · 14 December 2008, 10:11 PM

Excellent job Phil very well done.

The only thing I might try to improve the hair is to makes the strands thinner (I know, you'd need more) and to vary the shades of grey. My hair is not all gray. Even to this day I have a few strands of my original color in there. The eye brows are great, you used a few varying shades to break it up the solid color.

I know that varying the shades have helped me in my attempts at photorealistic art. I have to thank Richard (ramwolff) for that advice.