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[handrawn]

ah the days when is was a drawing app....

lots more great stuff here:

https://www.xara.com/us/gallery/#!

check out the photo realistic tab

[pauland]

ah the days when is was a drawing app....

lots more great stuff here:

https://www.xara.com/us/gallery/#!

check out the photo realistic tab

That's a great link. Valery's conductor is amazing too.

I think Gray is one of the few still producing incredible images today.

Impressive for a website creation program..

[handrawn]

my point really I suppose, back then it wasn't - you could create website asset such as buttons, but it had not gone fully in that direction, you could count the number of TG website related queries on the fingers of one hand; now it's the other way round...

[pauland]

my point really I suppose, back then it wasn't - you could create website asset such as buttons, but it had not gone fully in that direction, you could count the number of TG website related queries on the fingers of one hand; now it's the other way round...

Exactly.

Anyway, people evolve, software evolves and directions change and it can be very unproductive living in the past.

I came across this link because of an old email. Other emails from that period made me think "How the heck did I do all this stuff?", and a very few "What the heck is this about?"!

I think we've forgotten about Xara as an art/illustration programme and most people have moved on to alternatives.. ..including me.

[handrawn]

Exactly.

Anyway, people evolve, software evolves and directions change and it can be very unproductive living in the past.

I came across this link because of an old email. Other emails from that period made me think "How the heck did I do all this stuff?", and a very few "What the heck is this about?"!

I think we've forgotten about Xara as an art/illustration programme and most people have moved on to alternatives.. ..including me.

it is to be hoped that xara make a success of their pro+/cloud; also, ideally, that the legacy catalog they have left with magix to distribute/support continues to develop as well although I have my reservations about the latter, revenue streams will be the main determining factor I would imagine at the end of the day [as they always were]

and yes everything evolves

I came from a 'fine art' background and so I started with photoshop elements 2, very basic, and fractal 5 [precursor of what is now corel painter] - on a computer with less than 1GHz single core, 128MB slow memory, and only 64 MB dedicated graphic memory no GPU you had to be very patient indeed to use fractal and go through lots of hoops to do anything complicated

for cartooning I would draw the line art sometimes directly in xara, sometimes in photoshop elements and then vectorise it in xara/inkscape

today my desktop has 4.3GHz 8 cores, and 64 GB of memory up by a factor of 1024; given SSD and GTX1070 GPU as well, corel painter 2020 just flies

toon boom harmony will now handle and animate raster, not tied to just vector anymore


living in the past is not possible, you can only superimpose it on the present and that can cause real problems if you start believing in it... ask anyone with half an eye on politics


I was never clever enough to do anything photorealistic in vector, some of it is truely amazing...

[gray]

Thanks for posting the old link. Many familiar names there. It's a shame things change, but most graphics forums are gone now or barely hanging on with little activity. Most of us here are getting a little long in the tooth. It would be nice to see new members posting their work daily like a few years ago. It was always interesting to see what was new each day. It's like most things in life, you wish you could go back in time. I think the chances of that are slim though, so enjoy the moment and the rest of the journey.

[gwpriester]

We had some really exceptional artists over the years in the XaraXone Featured Artist Gallery. Here's a link http://archive.xaraxone.com/html/featured_art_.html

Thanks to Gary and Barbara Bouton for creating this archive of the original Xara Xone.

[wizard509]

That's a great link. Valery's conductor is amazing too.

I think Gray is one of the few still producing incredible images today.

Impressive for a website creation program..

Yes I noticed Graham's work too.

[wizard509]

ah the days when is was a drawing app....

lots more great stuff here:

https://www.xara.com/us/gallery/#! check out the photo realistic tab

Thanks for posting that handrawn. Those were the glory days when lots of people participated and TG was still a vital and fun place to be and although still wet behind the ears I learned a lot. This got me wondering if we started doing some really nice work if just perhaps we might spark some interest and get more participation again maybe not to it's former glory





























































i learned a lot. You got me wondering if