WDE Jan8/ Peacock & imagination

bluelilac · #1 01-09-2010, 06:48 PM

Thanks for the images Lin. I sat at my computer last night and worked on this peacock in digital vector design using CorelDraw. It really was fun doing this and when you said to use our imaginations I felt free'd up to play even more.
Comments are most welcome.

And further with these shapes

Thanks for looking.
Mary Jane

my blogs
http://maplepancakes.blogspot.com/
http://paintingpuppies.blogspot.com/

PETE K · #2 01-09-2010, 07:04 PM

Mary Jane, they are both great but the first one. WOW! i sure could picture it being n a business somewhere. fantastic.

RogerPf · #3 01-09-2010, 07:18 PM

Great work, Mary Jane. So very clean looking.

lovin art · #4 01-09-2010, 07:57 PM

Mary Jane, great looking peacock, i to love the top one its my fav bright and beautiful!

Sandra

bluelilac · #5 01-09-2010, 09:40 PM

Pete, Roger and Sandra - thanks for coming by today with your positive comments. This keeps me going.

kordelia · #6 01-09-2010, 10:39 PM

MJ!!!

.... first clappies of the new year!!!! and well earned... blew me away.... LOVe your trees especialllllly........ "Jack" (that's what i called him) is handsome and elegant.......... mahvelous job, dahling!!!!......... kor

bluelilac · #7 01-09-2010, 11:13 PM

Kordelia
You are such a sweetheart. Thanks for the clappies. Jack the peacock? What a name! You make me smile.

carol_lee · #8 01-09-2010, 11:21 PM

Mary Jane these are absolutely fabulous...wonder if these could be done in photoshop as well...any suggestions for a tutorial???
carol

**skappy** · #9 01-09-2010, 11:53 PM

Nice work Mary Jane no mess to clean

Robert

Crowwoman · #10 01-10-2010, 12:22 AM

Nice job Mary. ~!~Crowie

Scotkatidid · #11 01-10-2010, 12:58 AM

Oh what lovely contemporary pieces - great work Mary Jane!

bluelilac · #12 01-10-2010, 01:46 AM

Carol Lee - I would be glad to maybe lay out the steps visually in a pdf file of a few pages. I could put something together and make it available I guess. I don't think this can be done in vector format in photoshop but I may be wrong. I think others usually do vector files with MACs and adobe Illustrator. I have a PC and got accustomed to CorelDRAW when I was working as a graphic artist/illustrator. However I never had the time to play with vectors like this and now I do have time . I think it is good for my brain. However CorelDRAW is a pretty expensive program to buy and it takes time to learn. painter is much less expensive and has a faster learning curve and lots of online tutorials. But Painter is not a vector program. Maybe there are some cheaper vector software programs?

Thanks Robert. Right. No mess. Just really sore shoulders and tight back from concentrating and ditzing around with bits. And tired eyes. Really tired eyes.

Thanks Crowie. You always say nice things.

Kate - I appreciate your words. Thank you.

lady of colors · #13 01-10-2010, 01:56 AM

Mary Jane ... beautiful beautiful work ... sorry I have no clue about digital art ... but I see my daughter working on Photoshop and other programmes ... so appreciate the excruciating hard work and accuracy ...
love your work ... keep posting

**connievanwinssen** · #14 01-10-2010, 03:51 AM

Love both of them!

**Charlie's Mum** · #15 01-10-2010, 08:19 AM

These are super Mary Jane - I really like them very much! Lovely work.

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We have a sub forum here - the Hall of Fame, top of main page - where quite a few WDE members have added demos of particular interest.

I'd be delighted if you could do a demo of this for the forum.{

- me beaming at the idea!!!}
It just needs screen captures and text to upload as normal to a thread, which I then copy to the Hall of Fame so it can be easily found.

I use PSP8 which does have vector capability and I know quite a few others do also.
I have an old version of CorelDraw4 - way back to about '97?

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