Very nice, handrawn,
If the speckle brush was semi transparent the speckles would build up darkness where they overlap each other and so you'd get varying levels of transparency in the opacity mask.
Then the more you scribble over the edge, the more it becomes wiped out.
yes I see the potential, not really used opaciy masks that much up to now
personally, it is always the trade off between a raster way and a vector way - the vector way can be more manipulative but it suffers from not being able to see the actual result as you go along [ie not until you apply the mask[s]]
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always good to add to acorn's experience, as it's usually the other way round
drilling into the mask is one way in which vector is flexible: it is manipulative after the event and those manipulations themselves are editable; whereas raster is usually only corrective as in ctrl+z and do it again, or carry on and rework over if possible
have to say, for me, there is no substitute for seeing the result immediately as you draw, that feedback is part of the art, it 'tells-you-where-to-go-next-in-real-time' assuming you already have the necessary experience to visualise it as you go along
and of course if you edit in a group in xara you lose all context as you cannot the see the rest of the drawing, which I find less than helpful
Last edited by handrawn; 27 March 2023 at 11:27 AM. Reason: remove real time tautology
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Thank you for everyone's feedback. I will try these techniques.
@ acorn
I have total control of a graphite pencil...
more to the point maybe, we all work in our own ways and do what gives us pleasure and satisfaction as well as a result
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I wrote this last night:
I hadn't though of using an Opacity Mask and I came up with Marco's approach.Yes, it would be useful to have a viewing.
You could create a Scatter Brush along the lines of Novelty > Coarse Spray and make the Line quite wide.
I have no idea if you want a box shape but this handles any shape as well as allowing Transparency of the spray.
I stopped at that point as once you Subtract, you are stuck with a fixed shape.
Thank you both @PhilM & @handrawn as your approach retains the means to edit and experiment.
Another arrow for my quiver.
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Marco.
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