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Looking for some wavy U.S. Flag clipart. Been ask to make a cottage sign for vacation property owners to say Stars&Stripes. Drawing a blank in my library of stuff. This ones a head scratcher to come up with something original. Any creative ideas?
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Sure, take photos of a flag...preferably on a windy day. 6 to 12 pics should be plenty.
Choose the flag photo or photo that best meets your needs.
Use that photo as a template to draw with your favorite vector drawing program. If that's not an option, then vectorized the photo with Streamline, CorelTrace or similar program. (results won't be as high of quality as would be if manually drawn)
That's how I've done it, with fairly good results.
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Someone here designed a font (also named Stars & Stripes I believe) that may be good for your job. At that time I think he offered it to anyone wanting to do patriotic themed work. I'm pretty sure it was Victor Georgiou who is a vendor here (Anchor Blanks) his email is victor20@pacbell.net & you can ask if he was the guy who gave that font out if you think it may help.
Also Corel has flags in thier clip art & you can make it wavy yourself.
Design your best attempt at what you think will work, then show us where you get stuck. You will get a lot more help here if you do some of the work first.
quote: This ones a head scratcher to come up with something original. Any creative ideas?
My head just spun like Linda Blair's in "The Excorcist". Somehow using the term "clip art" with "original" and "creative" just seem like a contradiction in terms.
Hit "american flag" on a Google image search and sharpen a pencil. Then stare at the pictures without saving any of them and doodle some ideas... something to scan and vectorize. That's original. Creative is all yours from that point on.
Not being a smartasterix....really mean it. Werks for me... Rapid
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I hope Don won't mind me showing off the design he posted for us to check out a year or 2 back... I was so impressed that he vectorized this, I searched it out to link to here. Don't anybody steal it now
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I remember when Don first posted that Doug..and he also worked from what he posted here..took a bunch of pics and worked from one of them.
Excellent vectorising!!!
Good thing that ya can't post an actual vector file on the internet or THAT one woulda been on every vehicle bumper in the USA at the time!!!!!!!
Great work Don.
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Once more, with even more feeling... I see now, re-reading the responses that it was Don C. obviously, who made that wonderful image.
It takes me back to the days when I got choked up by the flag and got carried away realizing how glorious it is and took more photos in more locations, weather conditions, etc. than I can describe. I have a massive file of them. I also bought a book of photos of flags in all kinds of locations and situations, and to this day there is little that chokes me up as much as the flag with the sun streaming through it on a windy day. I also have little movies, now that our digital cameras allow that.
When I first got here, almost 40 years ago now, I was a young girl who remembered her first exposure to America and her flag and her soldiers. I learned my first words of English in the streets of my town in Germany which was occupied by the Americans. I learned them while the soldiers were wonderful, kind, loving, sharing and they got such a kick out of little bitty me trying to speak their language and asking for a little attention.
I became an American Citizen once I lived here in order to start my life as a person who votes. At the time it was McGovern vs. Nixon, and I gave a large McGovern victory party on election night.
You get the idea.
I love the flag. And Don, I love that work you did.
-------------------- Myra A. Grozinger Signs Limited Winston-Salem, NC
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Myra..I don't get into "mushy" stuff to often...and I don't often get into US politics...because it isn't too relative to me as a Canadian.
BUT I can now understand your fervor in how you respond to certain posts.
Your reply on this post made me realise how you think about the country you live in.
Like you, I am an immigrant, I am from England and live in Canada. I am proud to be a Canadian citizen, just like you are proud to be an American citizen.
I hope that many of the visitors/residents here can appreciate that, what they take for granted, wasn't always available to others in the past.
I was going to say other stuff...but I am not going to...
Stupid as this reply is...I mean it
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
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