Gary Bouton's non-Xara Art II

[Gare]

Something that grew out of a discovery mwenz and I came to at about the same time...

[gray]

The first one reminds me of Mr. Potato Head toy from the fifties.
The second one is right on target (sorry). Interesting the shapes in that one. Looks kind of like a lathe chuck.

[Gare]

Thanks, Graham—To get the weird dart board, I used dsb Flux's Radial Mosiac Photoshop filter. Then I carefully traced all the pieces, exported from Xara to AI file format, extruded the pieces to different depths, and then used an equally weird but dramatic camera angle.

[Gare]

This is all vector work in Expression. It looks like a painting because you can use a bitmap as a vector stroke, like Xara 10's new strokes.

[Gare]

I still like this, even though I did it ten years ago as an avatar for our website, which we've more or less abandoned. I use a much better rendering engine these days, and only use Poser figures occasionally, but the lighting seemed to draw out some visual intrigue.

Or I'm totally kidding myself.

[gray]

The first one you wouldn't think was vector.
The clowns face does have an interesting light reflection on it. The one side of the face really pulls you in.

[buckobeck]

I don't mind at all, and will come here often to marvel and be inspired.

[geoff99]

Hi Gare, I came across one of your tutorials it was logo in the shape of an egg with a couple of ellipses cut out which created an nice shiny "E" shape - I have just upgraded to X11 and would like to try it out but I can't find it! do you have a list of all your tutorials? - Best Regards Geoff H

[wizard509]

I still like this, even though I did it ten years ago as an avatar for our website, which we've more or less abandoned. I use a much better rendering engine these days, and only use Poser figures occasionally, but the lighting seemed to draw out some visual intrigue.

Or I'm totally kidding myself.

I really,really like this image Gare and I agree with Gray, "The one side of the face really pulls you in. "

[Gare]

I really,really like this image Gare and I agree with Gray, "The one side of the face really pulls you in. "

Thanks, Larry! I've upped the gamma a little on a bitmap copy so the detail is just a little more visible:



My Best,

Gary