I have a good friend with a Hemingway cat who I wanted to surprise with a gift portrait. In this case the cat is a Maine Coon. A Hemingway cat is known as such because of the author’s fondness for and collection of them. Also known as a polydactyl cat, the term polydactyl refers to extra toes on each paw.
I really have no idea where this came from. I just decided to mix and match two unlikely objects. And that gives you a razormonkey. Watch out — he’ll cut you.
tags: mashup, razor, monkey, animals, cut, cutting, sharp, Inkscape, design, 365, open source, creative commons
Ana Devecka asked me to make a Tiger as part of this project’s sub-series on animals made out of text. Thanks to Ana for the suggestion. One personal innovation for me in this sketch was the treatment of the color and body of the tiger, which I created separately from the letter node editing, then fused with the letters by way of the clipping feature. Hope you like it!
Tags: tiger, animals, jungle, stealth, stripes, orange, Inkscape, design, type, typography, open source, creative commons
Here’s the latest in the series, a squirrel, an incredibly common animal here in the Northeast. Thanks to Amy Kaufman for the suggestion!
Tags: animals, squirrels, northeast, rodent, scavenger, nuts, trees, fall, scurry, Inkscape, design, type, typography, open source, creative commons
This one was simpler than many others on this site — I went and found a striking image of a monkey, I used the trace bitmap tool in order to convert the raster image into paths, and then I created a gradient fill from red to black for the path. Straightforward, but I think it’s quite nice.
So, for the new year, I decided to break a resolution. I had intended to follow a strict theme of faces on this joint, but as you can see here, I feel that Inkscape offers a lot of things that are expressed better as other things besides faces. I think this might make a nice t-shirt or something, for example. So for technique, I converted the word funky! to a path and played with it to make it, well, funky. Then, I added 3 dynamic offsets and colored them with warm colors. Then, I took the word monkey, converted it to a path, applied a bend live path effect, applied a sketch live path effect, and then duplicated it, converted the duplicate to a path, filled in the centers of each letter with color, then added a dynamic offset to that. I added the black background and clean text at the top. Happy New year you funky monkeys!
Get the Look: Funky Style
Long handmade funky jewellery necklace with a moon shaped pendant