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Inspirational Art

This month's inspirational art from Valery Kouleshov (know as Coolshow in the Xara Forums) is a classic photo-realistic drawing from this Xara master.

A great example of the use of bitmaps textures (the canvas background) seamlessly combined with vector drawing (everything else is drawn - there are no photographs of any objects in this drawing).



Great use of transparency - note how the canvas fades into the distance. This is a simple linear transparency applied to a rectangle over the whole drawing.

And here are some blow-ups of parts of this drawing to show the stunning detail put into the drawing: