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[Stevo Chartrand]

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[Marekdlux]

Nice work Stevo!
I like the lawn care design.
-Marek

[Martin Cole]

Stevo

I love it all, :2thumbs: Super stuff

You lucky thing just designing and not making signs.

[Robert Lambie]

all very cool work, as ever mate. i like the road runner ones best.
lucky devil, design design design… 😉

thanks for taking the time to post your work mate 😀

[Vitor Brito]

Great Job!
-googleye-

I’ve seen great designs here and in design help forum, but yours have always been great, keep up the good work.

[Roy Roffey]

the mans a god of all sign makers

:wow:

[Roy Roffey]

how come i get all the c**p jobs???

this is my home work (hot) (hot)

that’s it I’m moving to Canada

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[David Rowland]

Yeah.. lets all set up against Stevo and move to Canada 👿 … problem is ‘he would win!’ 😕

Excellenty

[Andrew Bennett]

Can we take a vote on more demo’s by steve?

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Nice work as always Stevo.
I especially like the lawn care one.
Love…..Jill

[Andrew Boyle]

excellent Stevo like the Woodies best…….. are they done in Corel Draw [with a bit of Photoshop?]

Andrew 🙂

[Carrie Brown]

Great work as always Stevo … its always nice seeing your work 😀

[Stevo Chartrand]

Thank you for all the nice words everyone!

These are all done in Corel, no photoshoping here. I’ve always liked the crisp clean look you get from vector illustrations.

For the Woodpecker I sketched it out in pencil, inked it in, scanned it into Omega, cleaned up the nodes and smoothed it out a little. Then I bring the image into Corel Draw where I can add some color, abit more detail and some shading.

When I get a chance, I’ll do a quick write up on a couple of tricks.

Stevo

[Dave Bruce]

Superb Stevo, can’t wait for the demo.

Love the woodpeckers

Dave

[Jayne Marsh]

Fantastic work, I really love your style 😀

[Leigh]

😮 Very nice Stevo!

Really like the lawn care logo as well…would love to see some of the tricks you used for this – like how did you get the highlight on the green banner to fade like that in Corel? Transparency? or using diff. colors?
Those highlights are pretty neat, they don’t look like vectors – good job

great work (!)

Leigh

[David Rowland]

So Stevo, are you a computer pen user or a mouse user?

[Shane Drew]

I am convinced Stevo, that you and Jill as a team could take over the world 😮

Love all your stuff mate.

Wish I knew my way around corel like you do too, I’d enjoy my designing work so much more.

Cheers

[Stevo Chartrand]

Hi Leigh!

The bevels on the panel in the Lawn Care logo are just different shades of the green. I’ll assign all the bevels the main green I’ll be using and then mix up the lighter and darker shades myself.

Dave,
I’m a mouse user. I attached a photo to give you an idea of the evolution. I still love to draw out graphics on paper. I haven’t tried out a tablet yet, some people I have talked to about it have said there is quite abit of a learning curve and getting the hand eye co-ordination can be tricky.

I do get alot of people asking if I do this in photoshop. In fact I don’t know photoshop or illustrator at all!! I’m clueless with those programs. I had experimented with filters in photo paint but it just didnt give me the sharp look I was trying to achieve. I find that it’s just too easy to throw on an effect with a filter and have seen alot of abuse of these easy ways to make things look “cool”.

Lots of these effects and tricks I do, have stemmed off of painting first. Experimenting with color mixing, beveled edges and highlights I discovered and tried with paint first. Then this carried over into my designing.

Thanks again for all the compliments! I blush with all the nice words from you folks. 😳

When I do get some time I’ll write up something up on how to make your own clip art.

Stevo

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[Andrew Bennett]

A good scanner is an essential part of your kit it seems Stevo.

What scanner do you recommend mate?

[Stevo Chartrand]

Hi Andrew,
I just use an HP 1315 all in one printer and scanner. Nowadays it doesnt really have to be anything high end. Your raster to vector program is pretty important and the quality of your drawing. It’s best to draw it as big as possible.
I am using Omega and it’s not real difficult to vectorize a scanned B&W image. Cleaning up the image is where it could get time consuming, but i am getting to be fairly quick at it.

Stevo

[David Rowland]

Ah, Stevo I had a feeling that was your route and you have mastered it well. Node editing in Corel has improved over the years but it can take some time to do. I don’t use Omega but saw 2.5 at Spandex the other day, but we have the original GA software, however Corel is our toolbox here, most of the staff know that one.

Photoshop is a dream, took some learning at first but for vectorising I do a lot of preparing work in Photoshop as it really can sort out those bad scans and smooth out the pixels before Corel Trace/Pen outline features.

Amazing Stevo, I had dabbled with a computer Pen before and my team was using computer pens before mice and now they use mice as they are much quicker. Would like too see how well a graphics program draws with a Pen these days, the pens work well with program like Corel Painter (bitmap canvas simulator) etc.

Good stuff

[John Singh]

Stevo!

You certainly node your stuff extremely well

You have a gift

[Lorraine Clinch]

Nice work Stevo, I especially like the Woodpeckers.

I’m going to start a new thread on the subject of using tablets, rather than hijack this one 😳