Gary Bouton's non-Xara Art II

[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.

[Gare]

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

I hope you mean TalkGraphics, and not my thread here, Mark! :)

I did this when I was researching an unregistered name for a video effects company. The name is taken for COM, ORG, UK, and about five other top-level domains, sad to say!



My Best,

Gary

[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

[Gare]

Hi Geoff—

Here is the repository of my video tutorials. Frances Proctor stepped in and has a tutorial on this list, too.

Here is the 2012 to 2015 repository of written tutorials of which there are several guest tutorials written by our talented membership, such as Frances, Bob Taylor, Paul, Rik Datta and others.

Now, these are only links to my stewardship of The Xara Xone; Gary Priester put the original 15+ years into the Xone.

Gary Priester's Xara Xone work.

Geoff, I cannot remember presenting a tutorial with ellipses resulting in an "e" shape. but then again, I usually don't know the day of the week, so if you can't find what you need on either of the top two links, go to Mr. Priester's archive, okay?





My Best,

—gary

[geoff99]

Hi Gare - thanks for the tips - in the meantime I have found the Logo creation on YouTube (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMN5XfP7U2o) its quite neat - I'm not sure why I thought it was your work - a senior moment I think!!

Cheers Geoff H