Drop Cap October 2014

[wizard509]

This month the Letter is M

[wizard509]

I couldn't decide on which one of these so here is all 3.

[Egg Bramhill]

Always like the stained glass ones Larry.

Here's my contribution.

[wizard509]

Thought I replied yesterday Egg, but apparently not. I really like this one. Looks like pewter.

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi Larry,

Thanks. I was trying to get a Celtic Knot type affect. I did a search for "Celtic M" and came up with this one

I didn't want to copy it exactly, just used it as the base for my drawing. The original is an embroidered letter M, which I liked but couldn't see any purposeful way of achieving the embroidery effect in Xara so went for a stone effect often seen on Celtic Knot images. It became quite complex with lots of bevels and contours.

Looking at it again, I'm happy with pewter, very similar effect.

[iamtheblues]

Definitely worth all the work you put into it, Egg.
Mine is a fairly straightforward use of a font (Arboret) which I converted to editable shapes, ungrouped twice and then used the Break Shapes command in the Arrange Menu to enable me to recolour the leaves. I also drew a circle around each of the berries so that I could slice them and recolour them as well.
In the second version I used three textures with different transparencies (including Luminosity to get the colour variations) clipped inside the original drop cap to achieve an interesting effect.
Bob.

[wizard509]

You did a great job on those Bob. You and I go about them in more or less the same way, although some require a great deal of effort. I think your technique is excellent. Of the two I prefer the first.

[maxcon62]

"M" like Monkeys



Max

[wizard509]

Pretty nice Max. It's cute and Different.

[iamtheblues]

Cute, Max. I like how you've managed to avoid drawing the bodies of the monkeys.
Bob.