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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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17 of 365 is a bar code, or maybe a forest.

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This one is not about faces, stitched paths, or much else — it’s just about a cool feature. One of the extensions in Inkscape aloows you to create barcodes in 6 or 7 popular formats. QR codes are absent from the list, but this one (128) scans with my Android phone too. I’d like to combine this with one of the other recent techniques, like the liner volumetric faces, and see where that goes.

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A tribute to Steve Jobs, a portrait in lines.

A portriat of Steve Jobs in line by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
A portriat of Steve Jobs in line by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
A tribute to Steve Jobs, a portrait in lines.
A tribute to Steve Jobs, a portrait in lines.

Playing again with the stitch sub paths live path effect in Inkscape. I took an image of Steve Jobs and did a two part stitch to render his face and hair, then added facial details and turtleneck to finish it out and make it recognizable. Fun stuff.

‘Steven Paul Jobs (/dĘ’É’bz/; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple Inc., the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar, a member of The Walt Disney Company’s board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, and put up for adoption. He was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out that same year, and traveled through India in 1974 seeking enlightenment and studying Zen Buddhism. His declassified FBI report states that he used marijuana and LSD while he was in college, and once told a reporter that taking LSD was “one of the two or three most important things” he had done in his life.’

from “Steve Jobs – Wikipedia” at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs curated by lemasney creative. Feel free to share.
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15 of 365 is a lion, king of the beasts by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

15 of 365 is a lion, king of the beasts by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
15 of 365 is a lion, king of the beasts by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

15 of 365 is a lion, king of the beasts by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
15 of 365 is a lion, king of the beasts by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

This is another experiment with Inkscape‘s Von Koch Live Path Effect. I made a simple shape, which ended up being the jaw and face of the lion, then applied the Van Koch LPE, which does that very specific kind of repetition. After tweaking and playing with the Van Koch copies, I had the ‘pyramid’ of shapes that make the bottom of the lion’s face. I duplicated it, converted it to a path, then duplicated the path twice more to form the mouth and cheeks by rotating them into place. The LPE effect can get in the way of finished shape placement and dupes, so I suggest that you keep a copy to the side with the LPE applied, and work with dupes converted to paths. When I started out, I had no idea that it would be a lion, and in fact I made it first into a huge wig, then a beard, which led to the lion. After adding shapes for the eyes and nose, I made the crown out of a square converted into a path, then cut the holes out of the crown using the boolean difference operation. I created the spikes for the crown using the Bezier tool with the triangle out shape applied. I conjured up some ears and teeth, and tweaked the color until I was happy. Then I created the background and starburst to make it pop a bit.

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A face made out of lines

A face made out of lines by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
A face made out of lines by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
A face made out of lines by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
A face made out of lines by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

This image is based in creative play with the stitch sub paths tool in Inkscape. I discovered that you can create a really fun dimensional effect if you approximate the edges of an object in space as paths and then connect them using the stitch sub paths live path effect. I tried at first to make a profile without a real model to work from, which was okay, but not really believable. I decided to go and find an image of somebody’s facial profile online, the solution to which turned out to be one of the first images I came to, an image of a guy named David Zuckerman. I liked the clean-cut profile and used it, and after I was all done, I went back to get the information to credit the photo and found out that he’s “a computer scientist on Adobe Flash Builder team leading the work on language intelligence, refactoring and other IDE goodness” ( ). That’s well… awkward. I wonder if I can talk him into using Open Source software?

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Number 13 is two Death Stars and a stormtrooper.

Death Star Stormtrooper mash-up by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
Death Star Stormtrooper mash-up by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

Death Star Stormtrooper mash-up by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
Death Star Stormtrooper mash-up by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

This one was a lot of fun. So I was looking for inspiration, as I often do, in my RSS feeds in Feedly, and lo and behold someone or other was making reference to the Death Star, and how much it looked like some cellular structure or whathaveyou. I saw a face. I did some research and found some great larger sized photos of the Death Star, took the best one and imported it into Inkscape, bitmap traced it (threshold), halved it using the node tool, duplicated it, flipped the duplicate,  and I had my ‘eyes’. Then, I tried a simple “have a happy day” smiley smile, but it wasn’t working. I went out and looked up some higher res images of Darth Vader, Stormtrooper types, and the Fetts and clones. The stormtrooper worked best. I brought in the image, traced the bitmap (outline) and removed the top half of the mask using the node tool, then applied a white fill to the outline. There you have it!

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A psuedo-tessellation tribal mask

tesselation play in Inkscape by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
tesselation play in Inkscape by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

tesselation play in Inkscape by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
tesselation play in Inkscape by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

So this one is about learning how to use new tools in Inkscape. A Live Path Effect in Inkscape called Von Koch allows you to use a path as a basis for manipulating duplicates in relation to the original. This is a single shape (the central bird) which was shaped essentially to allow for an interlocking effect with its duplicates. A hard tool to explain, but a fun tool to explore. After I was happy, I filled the shapes with color, added a simple face and hair, and then placed a background.

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