monster-wife and monster-me

[FLySOLO]

hi,

just a little very fast drawing of my wife and me.

inspiration was a mosterdrawing of my 4 y old daughter

i have to admit that it was done in illustrator trying the really cool fill tool (live paint bucket).

FLy

[raynerj1]

Pretty neat little monster. I doubt the likeness is very accurate rendition of your wife...

of you....?

[steve.ledger]

i have to admit that it was done in illustrator trying the really cool fill tool (live paint bucket).

In which case this has no relation to Xara software and should be moved to the Illustrator forum.

[handrawn]

nice one

its good it the live paint - although the auto gap is a bit finicky - perhaps I've not got the hang of it yet - still prefer xara for coloring

but illustrator live trace on pencil drawings every time

[FLySOLO]

In which case this has no relation to Xara software and should be moved to the Illustrator forum.

the relation to xara is that i do nearly everything in xara for about 10 years now but i'm really tempted by illustrator look and feel, the tools, vektor plugins ...

if they would implement the possibilty to draw and reshape lines the way xara does and if the had the alt-click-select-below thing i sadly would change.

in office a collegue asked about a wavy line in illustrator which he couldn't find and i had a look and found a filter. it did a nice water like wave line and i though about the amount of time to do it in xara by hand and was amazed. the i added a roughen filter to the line and it made some kind of amplitude wave line of it.

very cool if you do vector stuff.

i don't want to complain constantly - i just think its good to watch and talk about the competition.

bb,

FLy

[gray]

Very colourful monster, FLy. Kind of reminds me of that movie Alien.

[gwpriester]

Awesome. I love it. Reminds me a bit of my favorite animation, Yellow Submarine.

[Albacore]

Firstly I like your monster wife a really cute.
Why not post it in the bowels of this forum in the Adobe Illustrator topic board as it really needs the input. On the point of Live Paint and Live Trace once you have got the settings that works on closing the gap keep then handy as if you use the same type of pen or pencil for your drawings you can get consistent results.

[handrawn]

Thanks Peter - I'll get the hang of it sooner or later

[FLySOLO]

Firstly I like your monster wife a really cute.
Why not post it in the bowels of this forum in the Adobe Illustrator topic board as it really needs the input. On the point of Live Paint and Live Trace once you have got the settings that works on closing the gap keep then handy as if you use the same type of pen or pencil for your drawings you can get consistent results.

just posted it here because i usually use xara for 99,9 % of my graphic work and i want to talk about xara and not about illustrator.

here comes monster#1

bb,

FLy