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253 of 365 is a giraffe made out of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #typography #design #inkscape #tutorial #cc

253 of 365 is a giraffe made out of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #typography #design #inkscape #tutorial #cc
253 of 365 is a giraffe made out of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #typography #design #inkscape #tutorial #cc
253 of 365 is a giraffe made out of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #typography #design #inkscape #tutorial #cc
253 of 365 is a giraffe made out of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #typography #design #inkscape #tutorial #cc

So my libland friend Julie asked me to sketch her a giraffe, and I do just about anything Julie asks. In this case, I did the following to fulfill her request:

  1. I found a silhouette of a giraffe and imported it into Inkscape.
  2. I lowered the opacity on the giraffe so that I could see text as I placed it on top.
  3. I added the letters in the word giraffe one at a time with the text tool
  4. I selected (s) each of the letters and made them into paths (shift-ctrl-c)
  5. Using the node tool (n) I stretched each of the letters into the shape of the silhouette until the letters were representative of the silhouette of the giraffe.
  6. The silhouette was set aside, and I then created a background for the scene.

Try it out with your favorite animal, and let me know how it turns out! Hope you liked it Julie!

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217 of 365 is for the weighted companion cube from Portal [design] #Inkscape

Weighted Companion Cube from Portal by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
Weighted Companion Cube from Portal by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
Weighted Companion Cube from Portal by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
Weighted Companion Cube from Portal by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

So my friend Robert has been trying to get me into gaming. He alerted me to the fact that the gaming platform called Steam was coming to Mac OS a few months back, and they offered a free game called Portal as an incentive to get you to download and install the engine. I loved the game, a mix of strategy, first person play, and a manipulation of the physical world that is just amazing. One mission from the game involves having to travel with a weighted companion cube throughout the level, and without giving too much away, you end up having to do something horrible to it at the end of the level. Since it’s just a bunch of metal, you needn’t care so much, but many do. Robert asked me to do a sketch based on my feelings about this event in the game. So, here’s my note of apology to the weighted companion cube, with an acceptable excuse, I hope. 🙂

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A dagwood style sandwich by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #food #illustration

A dagwood style sandwich by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #food #illustration
A dagwood style sandwich by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #food #illustration
A dagwood style sandwich by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #food #illustration
A dagwood style sandwich by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #food #illustration

I don’t remember much about the Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead comedies from the black and white movie era, and I remember even less from the comic strip. I seem to remember they got divorced a while back in the comic. At any rate, Dagwood’s tallboy sandwiches and the late-for-work stumbling exits stand out as the reason those movies existed. I was searching for something to sketch, and suddenly imagined one of the sandwiches from a certain perspective, and here it is. Hope you enjoyed it!

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172 of 365 is a grand sendoff in #inkscape #cyal8r

Out of here
Out of here

I had a vision of a grand exit — sort of a slammed door, thrown phone, I’m out of here scenario. Drama, that’s my thing. So, I thought about laying out some large text saying goodbye in some way, mixed with a clipped image of someone leaving, quickly. Taking those to the extremes, the text became a short text, cyal8r (see you later) and the image was one of the most iconic goodbye images I could think of. I wanted to show the gravitas of the departure and the brevity of the message. I hope you liked it!

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158 of 365 is a generalization and gender bias warning in #inkscape #typography

On gender bias
On gender bias
On gender bias
On gender bias

I always like to keep an open mind about people. When we start saying why do all X do Y, we are potentially revealing our biases that we have accumulated. It’s easy to do, but it’s not always the right thing, and it’s potentially hurtful.

 

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Rock Paper Scissors – LeMasney Consulting

paper rock scissors - LeMasney Consulting
paper rock scissors - LeMasney Consulting
paper rock scissors - LeMasney Consulting
paper rock scissors – LeMasney Consulting

This is really just a simple use of path boolean logic and a blur based shadow effect. I added some text to a page and converted to paths. I used the node tool to remove all of the inner shapes in the text to emulate what would happen in reality if these letters were cut out of paper. I then added the red rectangle. To push the effect, I did a path/difference to remove the text shapes from the rectangle. To simulate reality, I took this paper shape, duplicated it, added a blur and made it grey to create a shadow effect. I moved the shadow a bit down and to the right. I thought it was a funny kind of play on Rock Paper Scissors (rochambeau) and also clearly (hopefully) related to Valentine’s Day. I also felt like it was a little sad, like what someone who couldn’t tell his valentine how he really felt. This is for you, you sad, crushed, depressed design geeks. Go tell her (him, whoever) how you really feel.

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