20121128: A heart cut out of paper by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #love

So, for keeping designer’s block low in this project, I have devised a few techniques to stay creative. The one with the most potential so far, in my opinion, is one in which I use a favorite collection, usually a book, of phrases, quotes, concepts, songs or motifs as a starting point, open to one or more random pages, and illustrate the idea that results from these random choices. In this particular case, I was using the concepts “shadow play” and “cut paper” from the book Universal Principles of Design, a wonderful collection of key ideas and innovations in design. I placed a rectangle on the page, and drew a heart on top of it with the pencil tool. I selected both and used the path difference operation. I duplicated the path, moved it a bit, made it gray, and applied transparency and blur to give a shadow. I tweaked the color with the gradient tool and called it done.

tags: heart, cut paper, paper, cut, shadow, shadow play, sketch, open source, Inkscape

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