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Blade Pro Art is much similar to stained glass with the exception that areas to be coloured are done so with presets.
I got the original idea from Sissy at "Fantasyrealm/Twilight Designs Studio". The preset in the side-bar graphic
and my header is from "Aesthetic Web Creations" called ewcjade.q9q.
A major resource centre for presets can be found at "BladePro Presets Link List". I have been making some of my own, but haven't developed anything unique enough to offer for download. When I do, I'll put them as a link to this page. ;-) |
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This is my first attempt at Blade Pro art. It is a jpeg, rather than a transparent gif, because the colours were too faint in that image format. The drawing is of a "Prancing Unicorn"; originally a black and white copyright free image that was from the "Corel Magic Gallery 200,000 Colour Me" pages. Most of the presets used on the body of the unicorn were my variations of someone else's. After adjusting them I saved them under different names and couldn't remember where I'd started from. ;-( For the collar and the frame I used gold_glitter.q9q preset. The jewels in the collar are tubes (from Anne Gerdes) as well as the stars which are made with "The Hoods" Sparkle_Plain.tub at various sizes. Robin Rowlands is one very talented lady who has tutorials and tips galore. |
Haven't done stitchery for a long time. At one point I used to do crewel work, a type of embroidery only with yarn. Still have 5 pictures hanging in my livingroom.:-) This particular piece is a tutorial from"Designs by Donna". The bear is the letter "C" from the font Bearbats and the butterfly is the letter "O" from the Butterflies font. Donna's presets are stitches that she scanned into her computer and made bitmaps from for Blade Pro. A novel approach to presets, don't you think? |
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I had a very difficult time deciding which category this particular image belonged in; Blade Pro art or stained glass. The proper name for the technique is "Quilted Silk". It was developed by the multi-talented Carol Brooksbank, aka Carol U.K. (please see links page for URL & logo). This tutorial is detailed and complex, but if you manage to select complimentary linear gradients, the effect can be visually pleasing.
The image is from an art deco font by "Sassy Rose" called Folk Art 2. It is the letter "L" at size 400 pixels. I have learned from "The Hoods" quick tip 8 that the best way to get a line image from a predominantly black piece of clip art is to go "Donald Trump" big and then contract the selection by 2-3 pixels, cut to white and later resize/resample the image before colour fill. ;-) |
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