Joe Diaz
New Member
So I was asked to send in content for some ads for CorelDRAW X7.
They wanted me to include a profile pic to go with it and said that some of the artists were using self portraits designed in CorelDRAW, I sent in the one I have as an Avatar here that I also use on our website and on social media sites, but I wanted to do one a little more detailed. So I started on it a while ago hoping I would get it done in time and didn't, but I did eventually finish it. Then I had some fun with it and added some extra tech. LOL Halfway through I was kicking myself for spending that amount of time working on my own likeness. It just feels weird. I would have preferred to stare at some attractive girl.

Here is the image before I added the robotic stuff:
http://coreldraw.com/cfs-filesystem...ments/00.00.21.33.09/Joe-Self-Portrait-md.jpg
Here is a higher resolution version of how it ended up:
http://coreldraw.com/cfs-filesystem...ments/00.00.21.36.68/New-Joe-Illustration.jpg
I finished it up in X7 using some of the new tools. I'm kind of trying to figure out how I survived this long with out elliptical gradient fill effects or the Smooth Tool.

They wanted me to include a profile pic to go with it and said that some of the artists were using self portraits designed in CorelDRAW, I sent in the one I have as an Avatar here that I also use on our website and on social media sites, but I wanted to do one a little more detailed. So I started on it a while ago hoping I would get it done in time and didn't, but I did eventually finish it. Then I had some fun with it and added some extra tech. LOL Halfway through I was kicking myself for spending that amount of time working on my own likeness. It just feels weird. I would have preferred to stare at some attractive girl.


Here is the image before I added the robotic stuff:
http://coreldraw.com/cfs-filesystem...ments/00.00.21.33.09/Joe-Self-Portrait-md.jpg
Here is a higher resolution version of how it ended up:
http://coreldraw.com/cfs-filesystem...ments/00.00.21.36.68/New-Joe-Illustration.jpg
I finished it up in X7 using some of the new tools. I'm kind of trying to figure out how I survived this long with out elliptical gradient fill effects or the Smooth Tool.