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.

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portfolio requests

78 of 365 is a superphone! in #Inkscape @deepcdc

Deep's Blackberry
Deep's Blackjack

Hey, all. Here’s a 365 request from a good friend and brilliant thinker, Deep. He sent me a picture of his phone (looks like a Blackjack, but I’m not positive) being attacked by a staple remover, but I decided to focus on just the phone. That’s a really nice aspect of Inkscape, in that you can quickly abstract a photo and remove anything that you don’t want or need without the meticulous selection work often needed to do the same in a bitmap based tool like the GIMP. Different tool for a different purpose, but this is one of the reasons I love Inkscape. I took the original image, bitmap traced it, removed everything but the phone, and then duplicated and blurred the duplicate for the glow effect. I then added a background and placed some pencil marks set to shape: triangle in to give that “shiny” attention effect. I applied the same glow effect on the pencil marks. Thanks for the submission, Deep — that’s a super phone!

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77 of 365 is a call to attend an exciting event in #inkscape

TEDxNJLibraries event
TEDxNJLibraries event

Hey, all. So this is a first, and perhaps a last for 365Sketches — an advertisement. The reasons I include it here are as follows:

1. I’m excited about this event — it’s something I’ve worked with a group of wonderful people to produce. I want to have a great, rich, diverse set of attendees, such as yourselves.

2. Inkscape is used most often in my design work to advertise, and this is one of my favorite uses of it. I most often use Inkscape to arrange text, images, and shapes to convey information about an event or meeting.

Inkscape makes it especially easy to maintain another group’s existing branding, since you can use image overlays (import image), bitmap tracing, font matching (with transparency and the font tool), and color matching (with the eyedropper tool).

I hope you all check out the site, but even if you don’t I hope you consider using Inkscape for your next advertising opportunity!

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76 of 365 is a return of the monday blues in #inkscape @suzieprof

Monday blues
Monday blues

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.

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75 of 365 is a protest against Mondays in #Inkscape @suzieprof

A protest against Monday
A protest against Mondays

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.

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74 of 365 is a dogfighter raining down bones in #inkscape

Dogfighter
Dogfighter

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.

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73 of 365 is an electric burner left on overnight in #Inkscape

Electric Hotplate left on overnight
Electric burner left on overnight

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!