Category: requests

These are design or consulting jobs that rose out of a request from the audience. I am always looking for prompts for new content, so if you have a need, please reach out.

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A monster guitarist: Samzilla by John LeMasney via lemasney.com (Sam Pinola)

A monster guitarist: Samzilla by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #rockandroll #poster
A monster guitarist: Samzilla by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #rockandroll #poster
A monster guitarist: Samzilla by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #rockandroll #poster
A monster guitarist: Samzilla by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #rockandroll #poster

So here is another collaboration with my great and longtime friend, Sam Pinola. Sam sent me a bitmap traced SVG of his band, and we discussed over email the idea of his band fighting Godzilla, and possibly a 3D movie effect. In the end, turning Sam into a city wrecking, bass playing iconic monster won out for me, and I modified his SVG to make  this image. I hope Sam likes it, and I hope you like it too!

If you like this image, please share it. If you use it, please attribute me, and thanks! (cc-by lemasney)

lemasney, design, open source, creative commons, cc-by, typography, poster, Inkscape, GIMP, monster, rock and roll, guitar, guitarist, bass

Look at my favorite images from this project on the Portfolio page

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206 of 365 is Sam playing on a huge amplifier

Sam Pinola playing on a huge amplifier
Sam Pinola playing on a huge amplifier
Sam Pinola playing on a huge amplifier
Sam Pinola playing on a huge amplifier

This is the result of a short collaboration between Sam Pinola and I during a recent visit to his house. We sat together and brought in images and discussed techniques and revised and played, and this is what we came up with. Thanks for the help, Sam!

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204 of 365 is photomeditation [logo] #Inkscape @gservo

Photomeditation
Photomeditation

It’s a few hours late for Tuesday’s post, but 365 is 365. My good tweep @Gservo asked me to work on some branding for one mode of his beautiful and productive photography, which he calls photomeditation, in which one uses photography as a methodology of focusing into the self, and finding one’s center. I loved the idea, and I hope that this image begins to speak to the brand.

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Gordon Ramsay as a lion by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #illustration #Inkscape #creativecommons

Gordon Ramsay as a lion by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #illustration #Inkscape #creativecommons
Gordon Ramsay as a lion by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #illustration #Inkscape #creativecommons

Gordon Ramsay as a lion by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #illustration #Inkscape #creativecommons
Gordon Ramsay as a lion by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #illustration #Inkscape #creativecommons

Where to start? When I asked for suggestions for this project, my very good friend and ideological brother Tim McGee asked me to illustrate one of his favorite William Butler Yeats poems, The Second Coming, which I’ve included below. He said that it is mindful of summer solstice for him, and I had hoped to have it for him by the solstice, but I had some trouble determining exactly how to illustrate it. The passage of concrete ideas in the last part of the poem speaks a bit about why I’ve used this imagery, but I have no reason other than pure snark for using Gordon Ramsay‘s likeness. I love his shows, a guilty pleasure, and he surely comes off as though he believes he is the second coming. He’s got the look that Yeats talks about, too, I believe. I hope Tim liked it, and as usual, I hope I offended no one.

“TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? ”

– The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats on

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200 of 365 is a giant [illustration] #Inkscape

Giant!
Giant!

This is a response to a Flickr group contest called Illustration Friday, and this week’s challenge just happens to be ‘giant’. Here’s my take on the idea, and I hope you liked it!

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198 of 365 is an overstayed welcome in #Inkscape

Overstayed welcome
Overstayed welcome

The saddest part about this, really, is that I have more than one friend/liker/pal who wants this sketch done. I’m not mentioning any names, but I’ll just say that if you are a renter making your landlord miserable, a relative who is taking advantage of an open door, or someone staying past the third cup of tea, you’re not vain — this sketch is about you.