Bouton's stuff, Volume 2

[Gare]

At a quick glance it says "Jack of Diamonds"

Hmmmm. Okay. Go with it.

1.) What appeals to you about it, if anything?

2.) How about the colour palette? To me, that's where I'd get the playing card inspiration.

I could put more questions to you here, but it wouldn't be the point.

It's all about a process, Keith, if that makes any sense, or resounds at all.

When input (for lack of a better term, offhand) makes me stop for a moment or two, I tend to ask myself why.

And often the answer lies in Art. A design unrevealed, a possibility stacked up out of a fragment here and there that please my eye.

But for me, the process isn't done, then.

You might not know it, but I'm a playful guy. </under-exaggeration>

I'll take a bitmap copy of my unfinished idea and filter it in Photoshop. Or extrude it in a modeling program, or perform other path operations in 3D, such as "lofting", or spinning the path around an axis to create a 3rd dimension. Or smearing it a little in a way that cannot be done easily in Xara. Here's a graphical thought process; begin with a primitive...oh, a triangle's good.

Then mess with the triangle; lop part of it's top off so it's not equilateral. Hint: Asymmetrical is usually better than symmetrical in a design. Stuff can be balanced without being symmetrical.



Add a rectangle almost bisecting it laterally, and oops; well there, it sort of is beginning to look like the first letter of the last name of a dud who is afraid he lives to close to moi :)




Mooshing-around time, because why not?



Attached is the original XAR file with which to play/experiment.

You have XGD version 18 installed, right?