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.
There’s nothing quite so tasty, in my opinion, as a cold, ripe, crisp golden delicious apple in the bearing-down heat of the summer sun. I captured this one using Inkscape’s calligraphy tool.
This was an illustration I did of a speed gauge in Inkscape, the open source vector drawing application.
A client asked me recently how to affect the ways that posts show chronologically in WordPress. By default, WordPress shows the latest publish post first, the next most recent post next, and so on. This is affected mostly by the date at the time the post was published is set to the date of the post by default, even though the post may exist elsewhere in time chronologically. This is especially true if you are moving old content from another source to a new WordPress site.
Self portrait made in Inkscape using the bitmap trace tool, with two renders, and a dark cool palette.
This is a quick stylus based sketch of a coffee cup. This year, I’m scaling back my posting frequency to a much more manageable at-least-once-a-week. I did the sketch to test using my Wacom tablet in GIMP on Linux. Eraser, pressure sensitivity, and responsiveness all work very nicely. I like the resulting energy of the drawing, as it reminds me a bit of caffeine.
