John LeMasney (lemsy) is an artist, graphic designer, and technology creative. He is located in beautiful Nelson County, VA, but works remotely with ease. Contact him at: lemasney@gmail.com to discuss your next creative project.
Obviously I’ve fallen in love with the painterly technique that Angel Bee suggested a while back. In this one, I tried to apply a sepia look and feel to this particular image, and painted into the image with various brushes.
tags: self-portrait, brushes, painterly, gimp, gnu, gpl, open source, creative commons, cc-sa, sharing, lemasney, 365, postaday2011, daily
So, yet again, my 70’s upbringing betrays me in today’s sketch. I started with a simple head-on image of a classic stormtrooper mask from Star Wars: A New Hope, and began to paint into it with various floral and urban brushes, varying in size throughout. It’s certainly something I’ve seen others do, and thought to myself, “I’d like to try that”.
tags: starwars, stormtrooper, urban, floral, play, 365, daily, postaday2011, sharing, lemasney, gnu, gpl, gimp, libre graphics, creative commons, cc-sa
So using the same technique that I used for a self-portrait a few sketches back, I decided to do a portrait of one of my favorite songwriters, singers and musicians, Thom Yorke, most famously of Radiohead. Starting with a well-known photograph of Thom, I worked in with various brushes, using samples of color from the photo itself. Holding my Wacom stylus in my right hand, I switched back and forth between sample (O) and paintbrush (P) to first choose a color from an area, then paint into that area with that color. A very fun technique.
tags: radiohead, thom yorke, portrait, painting, sampling, gimp, gnu, gpl, open source, creative commons, cc-sa, postaday2011, lemasney, 365, daily, sharing
So this is just a series of layers with different brushes used on each to create a scene. I created a layer in the background of sky color and painted into it with grassy notes. I added a transparent layer on top of that and placed some cloud brushes on it. I added another transparent layer and placed a woodland brush on it. I created another transparent layer and painted a single tree on it using a different brush. By keeping the layers separate I was able to adjust and edit each conceptual layer without affecting or destroying the others.
tags: clouds, trees, woodlands, sky, grass, nature, GIMP, gnu, gpl, open source, creative commons, cc-sa, lemasney, sharing, postaday2011, 365
It really depends on the one thing you know through and through, but I genuinely believe that this is true.
tags: zen, understanding, practice, universe, insight, enlightenment, gimp, gpl, gnu, open source, creative commons, CC-SA, lemasney, 365, sharing, postaday2011
So Val showed me a great profile pic with only one thing wrong: her nose was overexposed, and couldn’t be seen anymore. She asked me if I could give her a nose, and so I did. The only problem is that I created her nose by superimposing another picture of her at a similar but not an identical angle, and drawing in her nose according to that picture. And so, I had to guess at where her nose would actually be. Honestly, I think her original overexposed shot has some charm to it even if it doesn’t have a nose, and while it was fun to try to give her one, I think she’s better off without it. You see, Val is a super-cutie.
tags: nose, rhinoplasty, librarians, lemasney, 365, postaday2011, gimp, gnu, gpl, open source, creative commons, CC-SA