Category Archives: Xara Xtreme

Christmas Rubber Duck

A digital rubber duck wearing a Santa hat in an icy pond

A digital rubber duck wearing a Santa hat in an icy pond

This image is based on the other rubber ducks I have made,. Here I added a Santa Claus hat, an icy texture to the water and some snowy background. The snowflakes are a custom made brush. Some people may think this is a Photoshop image, but it is actually vector, made with Xara Xtreme Pro.

The design is available at Zazzle as Christmas cards, stamps and mouse pads:

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Illustration Friday: Strings

Soon, no strings attached

No more strings

Here’s an illustration made for the weekly Illustration Friday, this weeks theme: Strings.
Here we see a puppet looking like George W. Bush and is about to have its strings cut by the 2009 scissors.
The illustration is a pencil sketch which was scanned and imported in Xara Xtreme Pro where I added the colors.

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Book cover makeover

A couple of years ago I designed the year book cover for GSCE. The old look is dated and a new one is required.

Book covers

Here is how I designed the new cover… Read More »

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Xara Xtreme Halftone Effect

In this tutorial we learn how to create a halftone effect in my favorite graphics software Xara Xtreme.

halftone teaser

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