Drew another dragonfly this time around, using a color palette that Bill Taylor; aka (Soquili) created from one of my favorite dragonfly photos back in 2009. The same photo I used as a reference for this drawing. I've been itching to draw this ever since then. I miss this gentleman. He made me feel welcome as I became a new member of talk graphics and was always there with kind words and encouragement. I attached his original post below and the Xara file (to honor Bills giving nature) for you to pick apart and see how it was made, you'll need Eye Candy for a small few of the fills but most of them come with Xara. Thanks for the memories Bill, this ones for you.
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Very nice dragonfly Mark.
I hope you don't mind I made a palette file from some of the colours.
It is a Photoshop type swatches file that can be used in Xtreme as well as some other applications.
For use with Xara Xtreme simply unzip the .aco file to your Palettes folder.
For Xara Xtreme Pro 5.1 that would be C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Xtreme Pro 5\Palettes
Start Xtreme then open the Color Gallery. Right click on the Dragonfly_by_MarksRGBD65 folder and click on the Show on Color Line option.
The palette was created using myPANTONE Palettes version 1.5 available for free at Pantone.com.
http://www.pantone.com/pages/MYP_myp...pg=19567&ca=75 scroll down to find the myPANTONE palette download link. You will need to sign up for free with myPantone to get the free application.
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Last edited by Soquili; 22 December 2009 at 07:55 AM.
Soquili
a.k.a. Bill Taylor
Bill is no longer with us. He died on 10 Dec 2012. We remember him always.
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