If i could paint this is how i imagine this photo would look

A artyfied view of Portree on the isle of Skye

Mallaig harbour the place from which Bonnie Prince Charlie fled to Skye.

You are getting scary good at this type of edit, Professer. All of these are terrific.

Pleased you like Tredici



Glen Coe Scotland, A beautiful place to visit with a disturbing history of the massacre that occured.

I drew a vector graphic today. First one for ages:



Edit: File renamed, so image link changed.

This is the Queen Victoria Fountain, Situated near the peoples palace in Glasgow at Glasgow Green. The four faces show four different statues to do with the Empire as it was.

What do you see in this computer graphic? A regular flat pattern, or something that has depth and cubes? It tends to drift between the two if you keep looking at it:

This one took a bit of constructing even though it looks fairly simple. It involved making the segments, duplicating, cutting and all sorts of other vector type operations. It be might correctly noticed that it uses the same basic pattern as the graphic above. It shows that once a basic shape is created, it can be used for other graphics.

I like both graphics Telly, but am partial to the first one. It puts me in mind of a variation of a quilt block called tumbling blocks. I'm sure Mrs. Telly is familiar with it. I imagine it in specific colors, placed a bit differently than yours. And yes, I see two different type of tumbling blocks in your graphic!

Mrs. Telly made the same remark about the pattern being used in quilts . I sometimes have to draw and print the shapes that she wants to stitch into quilts. A useful purpose for a vector drawing program.

That wasn't the origin of this pattern though. It is just interesting to make the shapes and then see what could be done with them. The basic shapes can be seen below. They could have been drawn differently. For instance, the points of the triangles are hidden beneath the hexagon. I could therefore have cut the points off so that they exactly fitted the sides of the hexagon. I don't have to cut material like a quilter would though. One shape can sit on top of another when it comes to vector drawing.

There are times when it might be good to see through the shapes to a degree so that you can see what lies beneath. In the bit on the right of the picture, you can see the result of putting one complete pattern on top of another, instead of placing them side by side. Now look at the 'tower' graphic a few posts back. Can you see how that was done now? The same basic shape was used with a few segments removed. The remainder were given some transparency towards the middles so that the cubes can be seen through them.

So, same shapes put to different uses.

Well you've certainly given me an idea Telly. It's probably been thought of before, but I prefer to think I just came up with it! There is a method in quilting where to make a triangle on the corner of a square you cut a smaller square of different fabric, then sew diagonally, fold it back, and shazaam, there's your triangle made from a square. Mrs. Telly could give you a demo! I seem to think that same idea might be able to be adjusted to the tumbling blocks pattern. Of course there would be a seam in each of the diamonds in the center, but anything to avoid a "Y" seam!

Sorry for getting this thread off on a tangent.

TW, I wouldn't even know where to start creating something like that, although years ago I did knit a sweater with a similar 3D pattern. But on the computer? I'd be lost. Hats off to you.

Professer, I like your last offering very much.

Thanks Mags, that took me 3 weeks to perfect the way i wanted at least 2 failures before i achieved what i wanted.

Edinburgh Castle from Princess Street

I attempted to place a blue Saltire on this photo, i was somewhaat successful

different artfied version of my favourite scottish Castle

Artified picture of Glenfinnan viaduct featured in the harry potter films

Another 'boxy' drawing. The pattern on the boxes is one that I used to draw in juniors school. Nobody in the school showed me how to draw it. It might have been my brother or sister a few years before that. Anyway, to me they were always called 'willow wops' an infants name for something if ever I heard it . I used to decorate the covers in my school exercise books with the pattern. It took a while to draw each curly bit (willow wop) separately but after a while, the covers filled up and looked good ...I thought so anyway. I had a school-friend who started doing his books in it too .

The willow wops weren't drawn separately here. One was drawn, duplicated many times and then hung together. Another pointless exercise completed

A arty version of the lower part of the fountain at the peoples palace Glasgow

As the ship is old i wanted to make the photo look old

Oh, that's cool, very industrial looking.

My first attempt, Brandenburg Gate 'as a painting'.

My first offering in Image Art thread. No fancy program, just a mushroom cap mega-tweaked in Windows Live Photo Gallery. I think it looks pretty psychedelic now.