Donna Sillia

I am still so fascinated by the cass directional tube script that I bound it to my workspace. There was a simple tutorial for a balloon which I made into a directional tube. The font is Ambidexter, a free font. The confetti and curled ribbons are tubes.

I am still playing with vectors. Today, I created a Halloween bat that I traced from a Halloween clipart from Summitsoft. I added the mouth and fangs as well as the gray lines on the wings.

Between Lesson 7 and the customdirectionaltube script, I cannot stop playing. Today, I made a sequin using a Scrap Tutorial. The fill is a pattern created in Photoshop. The font is Farewell Angelina.

I made a Christmas rope using the customdirection script. I adjusted the size to 50 with 8 across and 9 down. I think it came out a lot better than my previous ropes.

I found that I have been skipping the step size. I started using 50 for the starting size, 5 across and 3 down, which seems to be working ok. I going to try increasing the rows across and down and see if that makes a difference.

I tried to make a string with the cass customdirection script. It saved a lot of work, but it doesn't seem to be as tight as the ones from Carole. Carole, am I missing something?

Carole, thank you so much for a wonderful workshop. I am going to repeat it so that maybe some of it will stick for future use. The directional tube script is addictive, and I love playing with it. I need to make some more elements to use with it. All your workshops are great but this one was outstanding because the subject is so difficult for me.

I purchased the cass directional tube script and spent a lot of time today converting some of my graphics to directional tubes. It was so much fun that I couldn't stop playing with it. The diamond and the amethyst are from my Build a Kit. I made the heart today.

Experimenting: Carole, is there a method to distributing the hearts equally? I used the brush palette to change to direction for vectorpaint and vectorstroke.

I would not have been able to make the shape prior to this lesson. The vector stroke is very familiar to me since I use it a lot. The diamonds were made from the cass gem script, and they were made into a tube since I am addicted to bling. The font is MrsBeasly, a nice thick font which is free.

Carole, I remembered you once before recommended the brush, and I did try it. It didn't work because I forgot to change the brush variance to directional. I am still trying to perfect the project. Once it was published, I noticed several things that I want to change. Fortunately, I saved it step by step so that I don't have to start from scratch.

My niece was kind enough to send me some of her engagement photos. I had no problems with the text, but it took me forever to decide how to treat the photos. I made an ellipse and used the Vector Tube for the hearts. I also used the cass edge brushes. I had to go back to add the shadows that I forgot initially.

I love using text on a curve. I usually have to play with it a little to make sure it is placed properly. The font is sailorboy grunge with a layer style applied.

I went back and reworked the saucer. It took me a while to figure out how to do it.

I should have made separate vectors, too. That is probably why my saucer has jagged edges. Thanks for the tip!

I forgot to make the hole for the coffee or tea, but it is getting easier. I had the nodes set to medium and changed them to small, and a lot of problems vanished. I also changed the DPI on my mouse and lowered the speed. The mouse is no longer jumping around so much that the symbols changed so fast that I couldn't grab them. I forgot the second hole, and there are a few things I could change. Since I saved the original vector, I will be able to do that. I am not happy with the jagged edges on the saucer.

It's actually getting easier, but I am not good enough to save a preset yet. The mug has a layer style applied with my own pattern. The smoke is from a brush. I wish that I had added rounder corners to the bottom.

I spent most of the day trying to put lines on my leaves. I finally gave up, although I copied the spine of one my leaf pictures and pasted it on my leaf. It was very straight so I used the Warp noise brush, blend mode, and some gaussian blur. I darkened the middle and used a cloud texture under Effects - Texture. The green is a gradient. I just noticed a little tag left over from a misplaced node and just erased it.

It's hard to follow the lesson when you have to keep stopping to assist a needy husband.? I finally finished. I'm not happy with the leaf. I tried to make a texture from a picture of one of my leaves. I hope you will cover how to make the lines on a leaf and flower. As you can see, my lines were too straight. The starfish texture was generated in Adobe Express. The sunglasses were originally black, but when I created them from my preset shapes, I had the starfish texture and color in my material palette and decided that I liked it. The stroke in the label was made in Procreate.

That's happening to me, too. I tried resetting to the original, but that didn't work.

I increased the size of the nodes to medium. The small nodes are hard to see.

Still experimenting. It is difficult to make the shape symmetrical. I used some guides which helped, but it still took a long time for something that is still a little off. I used the barbed wire line since it can look like stars. I could not resist using my new custom confetti script.

Thanks for the reminder that you can save your shapes!

First experiment. All the textures are mine. The bevel on the heart is a layer style. The bevel on the arrow is on a raster layer. This lesson clarified a lot of things, but I will continue practicing with the different nodes.

Thank you, Suzy. I love glitter, and I love to fill in my text with patterns. I used the cass script seamless patterns for this fill with my own flower pics. There is an Adobe Express for your desktop. I think it includes some Adobe Stock in the free version. As long as it is free, I will use it. Adobe programs are really expensive and not worth it to me, but I do have PSD 5 which comes in handy at times.