Redraw of Apothecary and Haberdashery c. 1890

[hseiken]

This is an awesome expose of vector fortitude! MOAR PLEEZE!

[Ron Duke]

This is an awesome expose of vector fortitude! MOAR PLEEZE!

Thanks hseiken. I've got a new one coming up fairly soon. Been working on several.
Coming up: "Burning The Night Oil."

[Gare]

I LOVE it, Ron.

Would you ever be up for allowing my to filter your wonderful composition to degrade it slightly, to look more like a faded painting, please let me know!

It absolutely doesn't need anything else, though.

[stygg2003]

I hope Ron agrees to your suggestion Gary, Ron's work is fantastic and it would be great to see it as a faded painting.

Stygg

[Ron Duke]

I LOVE it, Ron.

Would you ever be up for allowing my to filter your wonderful composition to degrade it slightly, to look more like a faded painting, please let me know!

It absolutely doesn't need anything else, though.

Gare,
I'd LOVE to see something new!

[Ron Duke]

I did a oil paint filter. Anything like this Gare?

I can post a distress look too. Working on it.

[Gare]

1. NOT to take anything away from your work.
2. NOT to take anything from your work!
3. See #1.


Let me see, and this has to happen across a day or two, how I can add to your magnificent work without distractions, Ron.

You, you have a statement here.

This also applies to the oil filter you ran over your art previously in this thread.

Me? A lot of times I just work on a still life, and then modify it with a paint program and paint filters. This rendered model of a handshake lacks "human" qualities, ironically, so I painted over it and then mottled a lot of the flat surfaces with the selective application of a really good watercolor filter.




Should you encourage me (!), the composition will not look like the hands composition. I drive the software, as you do; the software doesn't drive us! Unless you have the Pro Pro Edition of Xara!





My feeling, for as much as I love Xara, is that a visual concept doesn't "belong" to a specific rendering software. And that's why I also feel that merely filtering something makes it different, but not necessarily better than the original. Filtering always removes something of the original; sometimes it's a good move, other times, it just hides something you didn't intend. Which is useful for me in a time crunch and I need to artificiality enhance some work.

If you have some free learning time, and want to go beyond filters to enhance a bitmap copy of your Xara work:


Rebelle

ArtRage

My Best,

Gary

[Ron Duke]

Thanks, Gare!

(Unless you have the Pro Pro Edition of Xara!) ????


I'll look into both programs and see what I think.

What do you think of FotoSketcher?