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It’s good to be Queen – LeMasney Consulting

It's good to be Queen - LeMasney Consulting
It's good to be Queen - LeMasney Consulting
It's good to be Queen - LeMasney Consulting
It’s good to be Queen – LeMasney Consulting

So there’s lots of reasons for this. First I was thinking of my beautiful wife, and how by mutual agreement, she pretty much has the power in our house, lives, and marriage. She does so much more with it than I would anyway. I also was thinking about the game of chess, which my 5 year old Jack and I have begun to explore in simple pawn only games. I was holding one of the queens in my personal board set which I got for my birthday about 5 years ago, and thinking about how beautiful the forms are, and it all came together as inspiration for this design.

In Inkscape, I imported a photo of a queen, and used the guidelines in Inkscape to create horizontal markers for changes in the form from top to bottom. Using the rectangle and conversion to path, I used the node tool to shape out the queen. I added a checkerboard in the back, the text over top, and finally, I used the new 0.48 beta spraypaint tool in order to create the bokeh effect you see floating in the background.

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89 of 365 is a wild sunburst in #Inkscape @Robin Milne

Wild Sunburst - LeMasney Consulting
Wild Sunburst - LeMasney Consulting
Wild Sunburst - LeMasney Consulting
Wild Sunburst – LeMasney Consulting

So this is in response to a 365 request from a friend and loyal workshop attendee, Robin Milne, who in noticing my love for the spiro spline effect sent me a crazy image of an object that had hundreds of beautiful squiggly spiro like lines. I have no idea what the object is, and in a way, I prefer not to, as it’s beautiful as simply an object.

Spiro monster from Robin Milne
Spiro monster from Robin Milne

So at any rate, I decided I was going to go back to an old standby theme, the Sun, especially in celebration of the Spring Equinox. I took Robin’s image, I brought it into Inkscape, bitmap traced it, duped and rotated it a few times, changing the color each time. Then I added a central ellipse to make it clearly a sun, finally working into all of it with the calligraphy tool.  I built a sunset styled gradient in the background, and painted in a landscape below. For a final touch, I added a candy coating effect to the sun. I enjoyed making it, and I thank Robin for caring enough to send an image, and you for caring enough to stop by. Happy spring!

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88 of 365 is a spring flower mindful of winter in #inkscape

Spring flower - LeMasney Consulting
Spring flower - LeMasney Consulting
Spring flower - LeMasney Consulting
Spring flower – LeMasney Consulting

Tomorrow is 2010’s spring equinox, and so I thought I’d celebrate with a highly stylized flower design.

In Inkscape, I started by adding two inline circles, and then connecting them with a Bezier path to create the dual opposing dewdrop shape. I then unioned these and duplicated them, moving the center of rotation between the two shapes. This made essentially the gray shape you see there. Next, I duplicated and path-outset the shape to make the light blue shape. I did the same for the deep blue shape. For the shadow effect behind the light blue and deep blue shapes, I duped those shapes, changed them to gray, and gave them some blur. I added the blue circles using the ellipse tool. Finally, I used the candy coating effect (dupe, intersect with circle, apply gradient) for the gray shape and each of the blue circles separately.

Hope you enjoyed it, spring’s right around the corner now.

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80 of 365 is a floor layout done in #Inkscape

Floor layout
Floor Layout

How do you set up a stage, some pedestals, and 100 seats in a room? Well, one way is with Inkscape — you get the dimensions of the room, the dimensions of all the seats, tables, and pedestals, and you start putting them all in your drawing. I had a recent need to do this for our upcoming event, and so I thought I’d share yet one more way that Inkscape does a great job of illustrating concepts.

Every shape started out with the rectangle tool, and the tables and stage were simply elongated. The stage also was converted to a path so I could apply a curve to the front. The dimensions are all wrong for my actual application, but the idea is quite the same. 😉

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78 of 365 is a superphone! in #Inkscape @deepcdc

Deep's Blackberry
Deep's Blackjack

Hey, all. Here’s a 365 request from a good friend and brilliant thinker, Deep. He sent me a picture of his phone (looks like a Blackjack, but I’m not positive) being attacked by a staple remover, but I decided to focus on just the phone. That’s a really nice aspect of Inkscape, in that you can quickly abstract a photo and remove anything that you don’t want or need without the meticulous selection work often needed to do the same in a bitmap based tool like the GIMP. Different tool for a different purpose, but this is one of the reasons I love Inkscape. I took the original image, bitmap traced it, removed everything but the phone, and then duplicated and blurred the duplicate for the glow effect. I then added a background and placed some pencil marks set to shape: triangle in to give that “shiny” attention effect. I applied the same glow effect on the pencil marks. Thanks for the submission, Deep — that’s a super phone!

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77 of 365 is a call to attend an exciting event in #inkscape

TEDxNJLibraries event
TEDxNJLibraries event

Hey, all. So this is a first, and perhaps a last for 365Sketches — an advertisement. The reasons I include it here are as follows:

1. I’m excited about this event — it’s something I’ve worked with a group of wonderful people to produce. I want to have a great, rich, diverse set of attendees, such as yourselves.

2. Inkscape is used most often in my design work to advertise, and this is one of my favorite uses of it. I most often use Inkscape to arrange text, images, and shapes to convey information about an event or meeting.

Inkscape makes it especially easy to maintain another group’s existing branding, since you can use image overlays (import image), bitmap tracing, font matching (with transparency and the font tool), and color matching (with the eyedropper tool).

I hope you all check out the site, but even if you don’t I hope you consider using Inkscape for your next advertising opportunity!