Hi Gary, you can give it real texture. Can you see the octopus drawing with the clouds be done easily in Xara Pro it would take time and effort. In PS you can quickly change the lighting in the Giraffe one. Ok some of the blurring can be done in Xara to give these wonderful drawings shown here a sense of perspective. When I was working and using Illy I nearly always took the vector drawing into PS but I seldom used the same technique from Xara I am sure that the layers don't export so that made the process much harder and take just as long as it would to do the whole thing in Xara.
Anyway great drawings and thanks for showing!