Category: Inkscape

These are pieces done for the Illustrated Objects project at lemasney.com that were made in Inkscape.

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Mozilla is openness, innovation & community

Mozilla is openness, innovation and community cc-by lemasney
Mozilla is openness, innovation and community cc-by lemasney
Mozilla is openness, innovation and community cc-by lemasney
Mozilla is openness, innovation and community cc-by lemasney

My Mozilla Contest Entry

So this is my entry for Mozilla’s 2010 t-shirt contest. Mozilla is Firefox‘s parent company. You can see the entry in context at , and vote for it, if you like. They asked for a design that promoted key elements of Mozilla’s vision, which is openness, innovation, and community, all things you may know I hold very dear myself.

How I made this image about Mozilla in Inkscape

In Inkscape, I took these four words and put them in via the text tool, then converted them all to paths. Then, I used the Bezier tool and the pencil tool to connect the letterforms and create tendrils which I saw as life forms seeking out connection. I saw the design as airy, connected, and creative, things I love and respect about Mozilla. If you like this design, I’d love it if you could vote it up at

About Mozilla

“Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.”

– The Book of Mozilla, https://goo.gl/dt6mJT
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Brownstone by the beach

Brownstone by the beach - LeMasney Consulting
Brownstone by the beach - LeMasney Consulting
Brownstone by the beach - LeMasney Consulting
Brownstone by the beach – LeMasney Consulting

Okay, it’s April 1st, so I figured I’d play with a little visual foolery. With some inspiration from Shannon O’ Connor, who contributed a photo of a tower with a tree growing out of it (what kind of neglect does it take for a full sized tree to grow on top of a building, I ask you?) so I figured I’d mash up some architecture and nature. So here I have an urban apartment building/townhouse which I’m clearly mislabeling as a brownstone, painted on a brown stone. I haven’t decided yet whether it’s just a painted facade or whether you can actually enter it. I like to think that someone walks up to it, tries to enter, and grabs an image of a doorknob. April Fools!

So, in Inkscape, I imported two images from MorgueFile, one of the apartment building, and one of a massive rock in the middle of a desert. The boulder had a man standing in front of it for scale, and he was about one eighth of its height. I bitmap traced both images, placed them on top of one another, then painted them with the calligraphy tool, the eyedropper, and the palette. I added a gradient based background, built a happy faced sun out of stacked, blurred ellipses and text, and added some surf crashing with the calligraphy tool. So there you have it, a ‘brown stone’ by the beach. Thanks to Shannon for the inspiration, and to you for taking the time to look.

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A highly reflective sphere

Highly reflective sphere
Highly reflective sphere
Highly reflective sphere - LeMasney Consulting
Highly reflective sphere

Here’s a simple sphere that moves a bit away from my regular reflective treatment.

In Inkscape, I made a black sphere on a gradient background. I duplicated and intersected the sphere and made the intersection white to imitate reflectance of the ‘floor’ part of the background gradient. I made a white rectangle and converted to path, then bent the top and bottom paths to make the reflection of an overhead lampappear to bend upon the top surface of the sphere. I created center gradients for both the black and white parts of the sphere. I added a grey, blurred, flat gradient for a shadow beneath the sphere. Finally, I duplicated and lowered the opacity of the black sphere and moved it down to create a reflection of the sphere itself in the ground.

Hope you all enjoyed it!

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85 of 365 is a double scoop cone

Double scoop cone
Double Scoop Cone
Double scoop of Ice cream in a cone.
Double Scoop of ice cream in a cone.

Summer is coming. We just pushed the clocks forward. More light in the day, more warmth in the air. Summer is coming. One of the lovely things about summer for many is a nice ice cream cone in the evening. Or in the day. Anytime really. I highly recommend Dairy Delite or Gibby’s in the Bristol area of PA, but you likely have your favorite. Feel free to post it in the discussion.

Mine here is a double scoop in a cake cone: Chocolate with crystallized ginger and cherry chips, atop cappuccino with caramel and chocolate streaks, chocolate, peanut butter, and cinnamon chips. I made in in inkscape by creating the cone with the Bezier tool set to angled lines. The scoops are large ellipses with many smaller ellipses at the bottom. I duped the bottom one and flipped it horizontally to make the top one. I created a grid with the render grid tool, and clipped it to the shape of the cone. I created the various streaks and shapes in the flavored scoops with the ellipse, rectangle, calligraphy, and duplicate tools. In 0.48 I would have used the spraypaint tool, but I just got my hands on it, and am looking forward to playing with it. I added the text, and created a subtle background using the gradient and calligraphy tools, slightly blurred. Finally, I created the candy coating effect for the shine on the top cone. I hope you enjoyed it, and I thank you for stopping by.

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A presidential mashup: Abraham Washington

Presidential Mashup
Presidential Mashup
Presidential Mashup
Presidential Mashup

If you’ve ever been to one of my workshops on open source graphics apps, you likely saw me use this technique there as a way to demonstrate the power of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). In the GIMP, this is a technique that involves layer masks, blurring, brushwork, image scaling, and guidelines as a way of believably merging one recognizable face onto another becognizable head. The GIMP based composite image is here. I decided that I’d try to do the same technique in Inkscape, and found this attempt to be fairly quick and fairly successful.

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64 of 365 is a hot mix tape

Hot Mix Tape
Hot Mix Tape
Hot Mix Tape
Hot Mix Tape

I grew up with record albums as that medium was dying. My first ever record album I owned was Men At Work. Sigh. Cassettes were a deep part of my generation — they offered me my first taste of audio engineering, because a record button existed on every standard cassette player.  I had lots of mix tapes. I very much indeed would sit up late at night and listen on the FM band of my radio for the good stuff, trying desperately to hit record as the first beat hit the speakers (even though the DJ would be stepping all over it), more often than not stopping and rewinding (because I had mistakenly recorded the wrong song) in order to cue the successful recording of the correct song in the queue after the other 6 important songs that week. Wow, that was a lot of fun. A whole cassette of great music from different artists was a thing of aural beauty, but it was also a sort of achievement — a testimony of dedication to the music I loved. It probably would be outlawed if they tried it as a new concept today.

This cassette was created mostly with the rectangle tool and the node tool, some gradients, and the text tool. I don’t really have any around, and I decided like other drawings I’ve done here to do it from memory. Thanks for stopping by!