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4 of 365: An illustration of a bald guy

Bald guy illustration by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
Bald guy illustration by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

Number 4 has been through a few scrapes. He’s an older guy, clean cut bald head, with smart glasses, and an awkward lip. When he looks in the mirror, he wonders where his hair all went, why things turned out the way they did, and regrets a few of the fistfights he’s had over topics as silly as baseball teams. Inspired by some old fool on The People’s Court. He was made in Inkscape, starting with a square converted to path, then turned into a pill shape. Half ellipses for ears, full ellipses for glasses and shadows, arrow shaped paths for hair, eyes, and lots of other shapes. And so on. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, and happy holidays to the rest of you!

 

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Sunny side up eggs and bacon sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc-by #creativecommons #illustration

Sunny side up eggs and bacon sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc-by #creativecommons #illustration
Sunny side up eggs and bacon sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc-by #creativecommons #illustration

Today’s sketch is a face made of two sunny side up eggs with a side of bacon. I love me some breakfast, and with the holidays come some pretty good ones traditionally. With the face theme, I just figured I’d have some fun with eggs. In Inkscape, I used the Bezier tool to make an outline of the egg, slightly blurred (not shirred) and put two yellow ellipses (and white highlight ellipses), converted to paths and tweaked them with the node tool for the yolky eyes. I then took a wavy path, applied a simple pattern to the path, then converted to a path and colored it in for the bacon.  Then I added some streaks of various colors for the marbling. I duplicated the bacon and flipped it, since I have never seen two pieces of identical bacon, and don’t know anyone who eats one piece of bacon with two eggs. Finally, I duplicated the layered pieces of bacon and made them gray and blurred, then sent them to the back to create an underlying shadow for some depth. Fun and tasty looking.

Arts, British, Color, Egg, Fried egg, Home, Literature, World Literature, Bacon, Egg yolk, Pork, Cook

 

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Number 2: Elf in a santa hat by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

Elf in a santa hat by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
Elf in a santa hat by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

While enjoying a visit from a good friend who always brings me some cheer, I was moved to make a funny little elf, just in time for Christmas. The face is mostly just a manipulated Bezier curve, with modified shapes as paths for the ears, teeth, and hat.  Festive!

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1 of 365: A Dali based happy face #dali #dada

A surreal happy face Dali by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
A surreal happy face Dali by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

I was inspired to make a happy face that looked just a little like Salvador Dali. I used Inkscape‘s Shape tool for the face, object to path for flexibility, and Pencil tool set to 50% smoothing with Triangle shape settings for the hair, and the spiro path effect to give the curly hair effects.

 

 

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Unconference: Pres4Lib 2009

Pres4Lib logo by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
500Pres4Lib logo by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

Title: Pres4Lib

Location: Princeton Public Library, Princeton, NJ

Date: June 12th, 2009, 9 am-5 pm

Description: An Unconference for Library Presenters and Speakers

URL: http://pres4lib.pbworks.com/

Involvement: Designed logo, co-developed materials, helped with planning and execution. Moderated sessions on Creative Commons images and presentation structure and gave a lightning talk on using Picasa.  Got second place in a Battle Decks competition.