Here’s a wacom based sketch in Inkscape of an off brand soda can. I used the calligraphy tool exclusively, varying the width of the lines thick to thin as I worked. I really love how the buildup occurs in translucent lines. It’s like working with wet pastels or watercolor crayons, but with the ability to easily erase or modify the lines. A very fun and forgiving technique.
Tags: drawing, sketching, wet media, cray pas, watercolor, still life, scene, soda, printmaking, Inkscape, design, open source, creative commons
Long story short, I felt like drawing a puppy. I’m a cat person myself, but people love their dogs, and I like drawing things people love. I tried to capture the energy of a puppy, and I like what I came up with. Plus, I wanted to play with the tweener exclamation ZOMG. Hope you liked it!
An illustration of the phrase "what's up?" by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #3d #typography #drawing #greeting
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I’ll start by saying that the text in this image, and its 3D treatment were not done in Inkscape, but in a free (but not open source) version of the application called SketchUp, owned by Google, and used to build really wonderful things in three dimensions. After making the text there, I imported the exported picture from SketchUp into Inkscape, did a bitmap trace, and then used the fill tool to color the image. A fun workflow, though next time, I think I’ll use Blender, an open source 3d modeling tool.
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I was inspired to make something that reminded me of President’s day. When I think of Washington, I think quills, and when I think of Lincoln, I think of pencils, though they both had both. I can’t explain why, this is just what came to me. So this one is all about the interpolation extension (extensions/generate from path/interpolate) which takes two paths and creates intermediate shapes that show how one shape turned into another shape. It’s great for creating animations, but also for illustration. For instance, you can take two related objects (like a pencil and a quill) and have them connected by a series of shadowy shapes. So, in order to do this, I created a pencil by hand with the Bezier tool, and then created a gradient that described what we’d expect to see on a pencil (yellow paint, woody tip, lead, eraser). I also found a nondescript image of a feather, brought it in and took a duplicate of the pencil and shaped that into the quill. For that gradient, I created a feather like set of transitions. I then applied the Interpolate extension to create the tweening. Really just an experiment for me here, but I can see using this in other situations, for sure.
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