©2001 Steve Newport

Steve Newport
Canton, Ohio, USA

JetSki I am a 15 year old student attending Glen Oak High school in Canton, Ohio. I have been involved in computer graphics for a while, but just within the past year I really started to get into it. I got CorelXARA from a friend from England when I was about 10. I toyed around with it not knowing the power in which I had at my fingertips! I started creating technical drawings of boom boxes and radios from around the house, all of which I have lost over the years. Up until that point the only sort of computer graphics I had experienced was good old "Paint" and I was amazed at how Xara could get so much detail! Over the years I've progressed and gotten involved in many other types of media in the hopes of working my way up to a graphic designer of some sort!

I believe my greatest source of help and inspiration would have to be the folks who hang out at TalkGraphics.com, with their amazing talent and invaluable, helpful advice. And also Gary Priester's tutorials in the XaraXone and and his professional knowledge have been very helpful.

The JetSki started as a background image for a larger more complex image I was rendering. But as I got into it, being the detail freak I am, it became a larger more complex image in itself! So personally I like it better as the main focus in the pic rather than a background object!"