Nice. Keep on being creative.
Nice. Keep on being creative.
Gary W. Priester
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Hello all, It's funny how things come together. I've been wanting to produce a set of 12 or so stamps for a (top secret at the moment) project that's been on the back burner for years. A third party content producer (Artifex Forge) has just released a collection of graphics, styles and brushes (for Affinity Designer/Illustrator) for creating vintage postage stamps. So anyway, I thought I kick start the project and give them a go.
Although the graphics pack contains a load of ready made stamp templates, to understand how it all works, I recreated a stamp from scratch after deconstructing one of the template files. In actual fact I don't think there's anything in the pack that can't be done with Xara, it would just take a different approach.
Anyhow, after lots of head scratching here's my first shot. For fun I've also included July's 2023's scribble line in the 'J' of Jono!
Hopefully I'll get another 'graphics roundup' together to post here soon.
Jon (Jono) Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 19.0.0.64329 DL x64 May 19 2022
I always found stamps fascinating when I was a kid. The designs and styles always caught my eye. Sounds like an interesting project to design your own.
Thanks gray. I'm also fascinated with stamps. Some of them are like miniature artworks. With my project I’m aiming to roughly complete one drawing a month including any research and accompanying text. So see you next year! (only joking, I'm sure I'll be around here before too long).
Jon (Jono) Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 19.0.0.64329 DL x64 May 19 2022
Here’s the latest round-up of imagery that's been loitering on my SSD for the last few months. As usual they've mostly originated from the TG monthly scribble challenge, so they're an eclectic mix of doodles, experiments and ideas.
I’m mainly now using Affinity Designer but dabble with VectorStyler and occasionally with Inkscape. Even after several years, I still have a love/hate relationship with the Mac OS. Probably due to my deeply ingrained past life using Windows.
Cheers, Jono
Jon (Jono) Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 19.0.0.64329 DL x64 May 19 2022
Great compilation Jono.
Just for fun I thought I'd give it a try in Xara. I used the example construction on this page: Page image below.In actual fact I don't think there's anything in the pack that can't be done with Xara
Here's the result.
The face was created in MidJourney AI using
and converted to vector using TraceJourney AI and cleaned up in Xara.Imagine : Copperplate illustration of 19th century mans full face, bearded --s 750 --v 5.1 --style raw
The remainder was all Xara creation and the whole drawing is vector. Used Spray.exe to create the noise effect.
Fun to do
Last edited by Egg Bramhill; 21 July 2023 at 08:46 PM. Reason: Just adding bits as I go along.
Egg
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That's brilliant Egg. Nice use of Spray.exe. I'd forgotten about those little utility programs.
I must check out MidJourney AI and TraceJourney AI. Looks like they could be useful and save a bit of time for my 'stamp project'.
Jon (Jono) Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 19.0.0.64329 DL x64 May 19 2022
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