Charles Brodowicz, an attendee and participant in my recent series of Inkscape Workshops at Princeton Public Library, suggested this sketch, and I’m really glad he did!
Category: portfolio
This is a portfolio of my work in many forms. It should give you some insight as to the products I might help you to create.
I got called out by a friend of Dan Wadlinger’s to make a Platypus. I thought it was an interesting challenge, even if I already had a very cute P animal in this series. Hope you like it!
“The platypus is among nature’s most unlikely animals. In fact, the first scientists to examine a specimen believed they were the victims of a hoax. The animal is best described as a hodgepodge of more familiar species: the duck (bill and webbed feet), beaver (tail), and otter (body and fur). Males are also venomous. They have sharp stingers on the heels of their rear feet and can use them to deliver a strong toxic blow to any foe.” curated by lemasney from Platypus | National Geographic at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/p/platypus/
“The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), also known as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth. The animal is the sole living representative of its family (Ornithorhynchidae) and genus (Ornithorhynchus), though a number of related species have been found in the fossil record. The first preserved platypus body was thought to have been a fake, made of several animals sewn together,[3] when it was first looked at by scientists in 1799.[4]” curated by lemasney from Platypus – Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus
I was born in 73. This image is essentially my childhood. I decided to take yesterday’s fairly simple vinyl inspired idea a bit further by adding 70s’-era styled colors, some groovy stars, and a polaroid burned in background. Hope you can dig it!
So these are some cool retro styled waves. I think of them as sound waves, and I think they’re reminicient of record albums, grooviness, and the lacksadaisical feeling of my childhood in the 1970’s. To do it yourself in Inkscape:
- Create a smallish square (50x50px) with the rectangle tool (ctrl-r).
- Duplicate the square (ctrl-d) and move it to the bottom edge of the first square. It should overlap at the line and be aligned with the first square.
- Repeat this action until you have 7 squares in a vertical row. Feel free to use the align tool to align them all perfectly, but by eye is fine.
- Select the line of squares by rubber band method or by shift clicking each of them.
- Convert all of them to paths (shift-ctrl-c) them combine them all into a single path (ctrl-k).
- Select and copy (ctrl-c) the path.
- Open either the pencil or Bezier tool (whichever you prefer, if neither, use pencil) and set it to use the clipboard as a shape.
- Draw your line, and notice that the squares are used as a brush. Have fun!
The latest in my animal typography studies, A pig made out of text cc-by lemasney. Hope you enjoyed it!
‘A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the even-toed ungulate family Suidae. Pigs include domestic pigs and their ancestor, the common Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa), along with other species. Pigs, like all suids, are native to the Eurasian and African continents, ranging from Europe to the Pacific islands. Suids other than the pig are the babirusa of Indonesia, the pygmy hog of Asia, the warthog of Africa, and another genus of pigs from Africa. The suids are a sister clade to peccaries. Juvenile pigs are known as piglets.[1] Pigs are highly social and intelligent animals.[2] With around 1 billion individuals alive at any time, the domestic pig is among the most populous large mammals in the world.[3][4] Pigs are omnivores and can consume a wide range of food.[5] Pigs are biologically similar to humans and are thus frequently used for human medical research.[6]’
from “Pig – Wikipedia” at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig curated by lemasney creative. Feel free to share.
A simple idea, but an important one. A million tragic movies couldn’t exist if everyone followed this one rule.