This is just a quick sketch in Inkscape of some clip art girl. With a tablet, and the Calligraphy tool, this kind of work is quick and rewarding.
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19 of 365 is a sketch of some girl.
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This was the result of me playing with the Render: Spirograph extension in Inkscape. When I first made the Spirograph, I saw the central opening as a mouth, and created a tongue, and some very simple eyes to make some sort of monster. Not really satisfied, I thought it looked a bit like a pig. I decided to push the idea by applying piggish colors, adding tweaked triangles for ears, defining the eyes a bit more, and shaping the snout with ellipses. I added the fade in the muddy background to create a bit of depth and story. I’m really enjoying learning about all of the deeper features in Inkscape — I usually would stick to the tools on the side, but I’m getting a lot out of the LPE tools, the extensions, and path tweaking.
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Playing again with the stitch sub paths live path effect in Inkscape. I took an image of Steve Jobs and did a two part stitch to render his face and hair, then added facial details and turtleneck to finish it out and make it recognizable. Fun stuff.
‘Steven Paul Jobs (/dĘ’É’bz/; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple Inc., the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar, a member of The Walt Disney Company’s board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, and put up for adoption. He was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out that same year, and traveled through India in 1974 seeking enlightenment and studying Zen Buddhism. His declassified FBI report states that he used marijuana and LSD while he was in college, and once told a reporter that taking LSD was “one of the two or three most important things” he had done in his life.’
from “Steve Jobs – Wikipedia” at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs curated by lemasney creative. Feel free to share.
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A face made out of lines
This image is based in creative play with the stitch sub paths tool in Inkscape. I discovered that you can create a really fun dimensional effect if you approximate the edges of an object in space as paths and then connect them using the stitch sub paths live path effect. I tried at first to make a profile without a real model to work from, which was okay, but not really believable. I decided to go and find an image of somebody’s facial profile online, the solution to which turned out to be one of the first images I came to, an image of a guy named David Zuckerman. I liked the clean-cut profile and used it, and after I was all done, I went back to get the information to credit the photo and found out that he’s “a computer scientist on Adobe Flash Builder team leading the work on language intelligence, refactoring and other IDE goodness” ( ). That’s well… awkward. I wonder if I can talk him into using Open Source software?
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A psuedo-tessellation tribal mask
So this one is about learning how to use new tools in Inkscape. A Live Path Effect in Inkscape called Von Koch allows you to use a path as a basis for manipulating duplicates in relation to the original. This is a single shape (the central bird) which was shaped essentially to allow for an interlocking effect with its duplicates. A hard tool to explain, but a fun tool to explore. After I was happy, I filled the shapes with color, added a simple face and hair, and then placed a background.
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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!
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