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.
So in a followup to yesterday’s post, here is @suzieprof again, showing her true feelings for Mondays. Her face was bitmap traced. The clouds are simply unioned ellipses. The rainfall is made up of paths with dotted lines set to long-short-long-short. There are ellipses below to indicate splashes.
Every week, a certain close friend does a status update, usually early on Mondays, about how they hate Mondays. So noted, pally.
So, I threatened to make a sketch about it, and she wondered where it was. I hope she decides to use it well.
Even if she doesn’t, it’s CC Share alike, like all my sketches so feel free to use it on coffee mugs, tshirts, towels, you know, anything you want to use to share your feelings about Mondays.
Although, I warn you, you likely like Mondays more than my dear friend.
This is my friend Craig Smith’s dog Stanley combined with an airliner, bringing down delicious doggy goodness in the form of bones. Thanks to Craig for sharing his photos and giving me the inspiration. Inkscape makes it easy — I took Stanley and did a bitmap trace and then took the airliner and did a bitmap trace. I removed all of Stanley but his face, and I removed the body of the jet. I overlapped them, and created some goggles with ellipses, complete with lenses (low opacity fill). I created a single bone using the rectangle tool and ellipse tool, and then duplicated resized and rotated the bones to appear to be the payload. I used the calligraphy tool set to “splotchy” and low opacity to create the cloud shapes. The land and sky are a single gradient on the background rectangle. I recreated Stanley’s ears with the calligraphy tool set to a thick brush.
One of the most frightening experiences I’ve ever had as a homeowner was to come downstairs in the early morning, notice a horrible burnt chemical smell, and turn the corner to see that the electric burner had been left on high overnight. This was when we lived in Levittown, PA. Our 5 cats (gotten before we had kids) spent a lot of time on that stovetop so that they could peer out the kitchen window, and we believe that one of them inadvertently turned the switch when jumping up on or down from the stove. !@#$%^& cats! We removed the handles from the stove unless we were cooking, and never had another problem. While the house didn’t burn down, we did have to replace a portion of the nearest wall, which suffered some damage from the prolonged exposure to the heat. We put up some insulation and heat resistant surface, but we’re always thankful that we survived that night.
In Inkscape, I used the spiral tool to make the coil, which I feel like I seldom get a chance to use. I widened the stroke, gave it a rounded cap, and duplicated it a few times. I blurred the duplicates and gave them various warm tones and hues to indicate heat and glowy light. I created the ellipses around the burner to show the shiny edge of the reflective underplate. Finally, I added a handle using the ellipse tool, and used the hot metal effect to create a high reflectance on it, facing the burner. Hope you enjoyed it!
Here are two quick sketches I made in Inkscape with a wacom tablet in Inkscape while I was waiting for my flight to arrive. Going home tonight!
This is another image for Jack. When I spoke to him last night, he asked if I was getting into a rocket, since I was in Florida. As a result, I had today’s inspiration. Hope you like it, as much as I liked making it.